Paterberg
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The Paterberg is a hill in the municipality of Kluisbergen, in the Belgian province of East Flanders. With its top at 80 m, it is one of many hill formations in the Flemish Ardennes, close to Wallonia
Paterberg in Kluisbergen
Paterberg in Kluisbergen
View from the top
Balustrades being placed before the 2014 Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organized by Flanders Classics. Its
Paterberg
…Flemish Ardennes, close to Wallonia. The slopes of the hill were unpaved until 1986, when a local farmer paved the road in cobbles because he wanted the Tour of Flanders cycling race to pass by his house. The cobbled climb became one of the iconic sites of Belgian cycling, and in 1993 the road of the Paterberg was…
Korenmarkt, Ghent (pictured ca. 1890–1900), was the scene of the start of the first Tour of Flanders in 1913
Marcel Buysse, winner of the second Tour of Flanders, pictured in 1913
The 1929 Tour of Flanders on the dyke of the Bruges–Ostend Canal
Statue in honour of Briek Schotte in Kanegem. Schotte won the race twice and holds a record 20 participations between 1940 and 1959.