Mini-Europe

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Visitors take in the Eiffel Tower model. Also visible is the model Palace of Westminster and, in the background, the Atomium (life-size).

Mini-Europe is a part of Heysel in Brussels, Belgium that contains replicas of famous buildings from countries in the European Union, presented at a scale of 1 to 25. The buildings on display are famed for their exquisite detail, which took over €75,000 per model to reproduce.

[edit] Making the models

In 1987, several art historians selected over 100 European buildings of cultural importance; it was from this list that many of the models at Mini-Europe come. On-site work to take detailed photographs of the buildings cost over €200,000, and sometimes it took multiple trips to garner enough details to make and appropriate 1:25 scale model.

To build the models, 55 workshops from 9 member states collaborated to construct pre-models out of a variety of materials. These pre-models were then used to create moulds, which led to the final model, cast from epoxy or polyester. Finally, the models were painted. All told, this process was extremely labour-intensive, requiring, for example, over 24,000 hours for the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

[edit] List of models

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[edit] Austria

[edit] Belgium

[edit] Cyprus

[edit] Denmark

[edit] Estonia

  • Great Coastal Gate and Fat Margaret's Tower, Tallinn

[edit] Finland

[edit] France

[edit] Germany

[edit] Greece

[edit] Ireland

[edit] Italy

[edit] Latvia

  • Freedom Monument, Riga

[edit] Lithuania

[edit] Luxembourg

[edit] Malta

[edit] Netherlands

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

[edit] Spain

[edit] Sweden

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Other

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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