Antwerp
Elfdaagse
Eleven Day Celebration of Flanders
Secretariaat 11-daagse
Collegelaan 106
Antwerp, 2000
Nearest Train: Bus 1, 23
Phone: +32 3 238 2002
Fax: +32 3 248 8030
Website | EmailEach year, from the end of June to July 11th, the region of Flanders celebrates the successful co-operation and co-existence with its European partners. On July 11th, we also commemorate the famous battle against the French in 1302 and which is called the Guldensporenslag or the battle of the gilded spurs. In that period of European conflicts and wars, the Flemish people managed to trap the French knights, with their horses and heavy suits of armour, in the muddy fields of Flanders. The knights were bogged down in the mud and lost the battle, thus Flanders was not subject to the French occupation. This battle is called Guldensporenslag because the Flemish soldiers took the golden spurs from the knights and decorated the churches with their war trophies.
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