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and twelve 6.
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Theatre Ro
Boul I
10 p.m. at
. in the Ca
Kursaal
ino (p. 14;
, at the corner of the Rue de Flandre and the
ers to the Kursaal are ae ed at reduced
Rampe du Cerf (P]. D, 2), a variety theatre;
ces are held in th
s during tk mm (adm.
ren). —
Hippodrome Wellington (Pl. A, 2; p. 15)
its 3-20 fr., cheaper for
T ne Zi of on: — Battle
on d Ostende’,
n of the
uthorities.
Physicians.
Telegraph Office,
a Sopold, ops
open
Stations, and in
British Vice-Co
W.
Ostend, Flem. Oost
100 inhab.), is the second s seaport
athing resort of Belgium. The town,
and connected by a canal
mé prominent towards
Dutch in
and the most f
mentioned a
(1381/5 M.) wi
the el of t
the After repu sing two hostile attacks by the
Spaniards ] 86), it sustained in 1601-1604 one of
the mos on pecud during which the States
were 1 and French and the other foes
in ruins before it surrendered with
the honours of war to the Spanish general, Ambrogio Spindla of
Genoa. The ‘East and West India Company of the Austrian Nether-
lands’ was founded at Ostend in 1722, but succumbed to the jealous
hostility of the English and the Dutch in 1734. Ostend owes its
modern importance to the great passenger-traffic between London
and the Continent, and still more perhaps to its reputation as a
uterin g ce, which dates from 1830. Since the razing of the
fortifications in 1865, which threw the Digue (p. 14) open to the
builder, the town has extended steadily westwards. Ostend is now
one of the most fashionable and cosmopolitan watezing-places in
Europe, with both the advantages and the disadvantages of that
position. During the season it attracts about 45,000 visitors (ex-
of Spain. Most of the town w |
