Vintage Blankenberge, Stairway of the Lions Postcard

Beautiful animated antique 1913 postcard of the Stairway of the Lions Dutch: Leeuwentrap, French Escalier des Lions, Blankenberge (Belgian coastal town). We restored the card and made the colours more attractive. Description: A majestic stairway guarded by lion statues, a beautiful old building to the left, with an umbrella repair shop, advertising posters for several opera performances at the Casino, and lots of people, a newspaper vendor, and to the left of the stairway near the middle you can even see a Hercule Poirot lookalike. (after all, he was Belgian too). Blankenberge is a town and a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke. On 1 January 2010 Blankenberge had a total population of 18,907. The total area of the municipality is 17.41 km², giving a population density of 1,086 inhabitants per km². Like most other Flemish coastal towns, a main characteristic of this one is that it is a national and to a certain extent international seaside resort. Apart from the sandy beach, there's a structure unique along the Belgian coast: a 350-m long pier, constructed in 1933.