I've never seen a cemetery like this! Laeken Cemetery | Brussels

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  • @liyanam7888
    @liyanam7888 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The Labyrinth is very scary...... imagine be there, and all the lights went off...😮
    I will be pleased to see Cathedral as well.
    Thank you for this incredible tour.

  • @Ginger32
    @Ginger32 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Never seen anything like this before. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I always wondered what it looked like inside and underneath the grounds of a cemetery! I always thought people were buried inside the walls of the buildings they are in. Not underneath them.

  • @monicapushkin3274
    @monicapushkin3274 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Amazing how much money these folks had to lavish on their tombs. Not to mention the planning and design efforts.

  • @10beachbum22
    @10beachbum22 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My gosh, what a huge place! I especially love the patina of the bronze and brass and the stained glass windows. I love your walks; I feel that I am walking with you. I know that I don't have the health to travel to these places, so I truly appreciate the opportunity to view them through your lens.

  • @stacey7529
    @stacey7529 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Wow. It looks like regular crypts above geound but it's a mausoleum with crypts underground. I've never seen anything like this!

  • @eberhardmezurich2026
    @eberhardmezurich2026 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Feels like walking through a cemetery map in an open RPG game. So vibrant with architectural vistas!

  • @NicholasShade-eq1ts
    @NicholasShade-eq1ts ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm sitting outside of the dollar general at Gum Springs, Oklahoma. 💵 We had to come and get my Grandpa some groceries. I love your content.💖 It snowed earlier in Gore(where I live, About 10 miles away from where I am now). My father died last year. I still need to get him a headstone. 🪦 He's buried in Vian, Oklahoma. The cemetery is called The Garden of Memories.🤎

  • @marthavanbeek-putters
    @marthavanbeek-putters ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love this cemetery very huge and so much beautiful graves. The cathedral on the background is also nice and beautiful. Thanks for the times you spent over there. Martha

    • @LiviuDragon
      @LiviuDragon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cemeteries are the creepiest places on earth and tombs are scary

    • @MrMaximino92
      @MrMaximino92 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@LiviuDragon for you because you’re scared

  • @Eifelfeuer535
    @Eifelfeuer535 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sehr schön zu sehen, wie man repariert und erhält. Die Crypta ist ja riesig und wunderschön ❤❤❤
    Danke fürs Zeigen und Mitnehmen 😘😘😘

    • @dalehoward5416
      @dalehoward5416 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beautiful statues.

  • @francespueo5367
    @francespueo5367 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Death dates would have made it more interesting.

  • @jennycampbell5236
    @jennycampbell5236 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I would love t see a map of the underground crypts. What an awe inspiring place.

  • @nubianqueen4375
    @nubianqueen4375 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Such a well kept and maintained cemetery and environment.

  • @lightdancer2251
    @lightdancer2251 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, it’s amazing and look at that big beautiful church in the back ground. So cool.

  • @mandysmith8360
    @mandysmith8360 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love watching your videos.i love the sound of your voice.

  • @delboytrotter2042
    @delboytrotter2042 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Videos like this have a way of opening up rabbit holes with me. I saw the grave of Gen Storms and thought humm.. Google lol.. Lead me on a nice history lesson. I'd never sat and read up on the Belgian entrance to Africa or the Congo without little nudges like yours. So thx..

  • @jamieknight326
    @jamieknight326 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow. The tombs with photos are spectacular :)

  • @sallyorne-gliemann5393
    @sallyorne-gliemann5393 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t imagine how they built these. It’s incredible and I’m sure it’s a beautiful restful place to be.

  • @EllenCFarmGirl
    @EllenCFarmGirl ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This was amazing! Thank you Dan!❤

  • @lilgrlQ1
    @lilgrlQ1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They're all very interesting & some even beautiful! But I'd love to take a look in that church! That's Amazing! Hope you got a chance to peekinside! ❤

  • @juncube8391
    @juncube8391 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Amazing cemetery by far. Worth the travel

  • @flitsertheo
    @flitsertheo ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Laeken or Laken in the north west of Brussel is also the place where you'll find :
    - palace of the King. His "home". The one in central Brussels is his "office".
    - Heizel grounds with football stadium, Atomium and expo palaces.

  • @annbannister1118
    @annbannister1118 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Another cemetery thats looks amazing Dan , looking forward to this one 😊

  • @leylawestbye268
    @leylawestbye268 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great tour. Strange how the pichures look fresh and not damaged, but the writing is not readable and old. Very interesting!

  • @stefipuff9077
    @stefipuff9077 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video and cemetery!! Thank you for sharing!

  • @pedrjdful
    @pedrjdful ปีที่แล้ว

    9:15 est...
    I'm just new to you, and I must say you are so respectful and funny at times. I've only just started watching this kind of thing and you are by far the best, I just skip over the rest.
    Thanks for all the insite...Pam from Toledo, Ohio

    • @Thomas-yy6rm
      @Thomas-yy6rm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Toledo maybe you know my sister their. Ha😮 I'm in Florida🤔😇

    • @pedrjdful
      @pedrjdful ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Thomas-yy6rm I just moved away from fla. Boca Raton...

  • @margritneuenhagen795
    @margritneuenhagen795 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am absolutely amazed at the size of this cemetery, the outside monuments are something to be proud of, but the wear house for the dead is creepy to say the least. It is so spooky there with the long walkways running along the grave’ sides
    It really is depressing there and it’s wet on some floors don’t know if it rains, or is the wetness body fluids. I’m also just new to your videos, thank you for taking us on your tour of this very huge Cemetery !!

  • @manuelvazquez8758
    @manuelvazquez8758 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    To say it looked like a "Dead end" was an understatement.

  • @joansutcliffe4738
    @joansutcliffe4738 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks so much for sharing keep doing what you're doing all the best 😊

  • @tracysnow3862
    @tracysnow3862 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this place is beautiful and very well taken care of .

  • @susieg4624
    @susieg4624 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brilliant cemetery and crypt! Seeing Rodin's The Thinker was astonishing. I really hope no-one pinches it. (There was a Barbara Hepworth sculpture in Dulwich Park in London which was stolen - they think by someone who didn't know what it was and cut it off the base for the metal. They would have got considerably less for the bronze than the value of the sculpture. Evil people.) Some of the sculptures on the tombs were excellent. It was sad how many of the mausoleums were damaged and neglected and how many defunct families they represent.

  • @andybsmith
    @andybsmith 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've had a recurring dream about this place, even though I've never been there. In the dream, I'm wandering through the halls of the mausoleum. It's not a scary dream, but it is weird. The thing I really remember is the statue of the mother and child with heads. I also remember the light is getting dim and time goes one, like the sun is setting outside. But I just keep walking around almost like I am going for a leisurely walk.

  • @weerwolfable
    @weerwolfable ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should visit The Antwerp old cementery Schoonselhof for its beautiful sculptures

  • @spiritwalker-nv7dp
    @spiritwalker-nv7dp ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That cathedral is breathtaking. Too bad you didn't go inside.

  • @sylviaburgett3863
    @sylviaburgett3863 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice tour! You should tour the Beautiful Church i saw in the Background.Very Big Church!

  • @dm607
    @dm607 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for this spectacular tour. The tomb in the chapel was dated 1749! Could you read out the dates as you stop please, I caught a few but missed many....... Deb of Oz.

  • @rhiannonrede
    @rhiannonrede ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing study on the Thinker. Thanks for the background info.

  • @Taledanoneya
    @Taledanoneya ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Place look spooky!!

  • @StacyL.
    @StacyL. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That cemetery was absolutely astonishing, but I was saddened to see the state of disrepair the crypt was in. Parts of the ceiling looked like it was about to cave in. 😢 Thank you for taking us on your journey through that Cemetery and its crypt.

  • @EllenCFarmGirl
    @EllenCFarmGirl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is just amazing! ❤

  • @joelhurley2678
    @joelhurley2678 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video Dan thank you so much for sharing.

  • @danlensch531
    @danlensch531 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    great video dan but did you already aired this one looks like i saw this one

  • @MaryHorrigan-bf4ub
    @MaryHorrigan-bf4ub ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First time seeing something like this. America doesn’t have cemeteries like this. I think? Have this. Thanks!

  • @cathys7087
    @cathys7087 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    At 15:54 it actually shows that someone was put to rest there in 2021! Amazing as the entire underground section seems forgotten.

  • @cherigilliam3292
    @cherigilliam3292 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing how different things are iam in USA Pennsylvania

  • @lmyj8053
    @lmyj8053 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the crypts & graves on top of the ground. They remind me of the graves in Louisiana but not as elegant. The beautiful pink blossoms from the tree was such a stark contrast among the garden of stone. What a peaceful place.

  • @JohnForster-in8fp
    @JohnForster-in8fp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Dan I love your videos it's fascinating how they are well looked after. Can I say I like your accent

  • @nohandle62
    @nohandle62 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'd be afraid to get lost down there!

  • @Mari-B
    @Mari-B ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the tour!!

  • @susanmahoney-e7q
    @susanmahoney-e7q 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was thinking the same. It would have nice had you read the inscription.

  • @londonluke6487
    @londonluke6487 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another amazing location!! Really enjoying this chsnnel!

  • @handsomemarco29
    @handsomemarco29 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing place looks as if it should of been used for a movie film location.. it has that mysterious fantasy vibe to it.

  • @maras4968
    @maras4968 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Been there Last week and it's very beautiful

  • @maryjordan7649
    @maryjordan7649 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well lit and tidy crypt. This cemetery seems well taken care of....not at all frightening. Interesting.

  • @rhiannonrede
    @rhiannonrede ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. Loved it.

  • @purplehaze5977
    @purplehaze5977 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow so interesting seeing whats under the ground

  • @jeffreyyoung4104
    @jeffreyyoung4104 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WOW! Thanks for the video! It was very good, and the history is amazing!
    The crypt was cool with the natural light able to come through the skylights, they were based on what the old sailing ships used for below decks! That one hall area tho with the electric lights, for some reason the skylights were blocked or covered over?
    If you look, not all of the cemetery is over the crypts, as the pats are gravel and no skylights, and the mausoleums had floors that were removable for underground access, it reminds me of La Recoleta in Buenos Aires!
    I would love to go there, but at my age, I should stay home and watch!

  • @monicapushkin3274
    @monicapushkin3274 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:33 the bell was a nice touch.

  • @paulcarmichael596
    @paulcarmichael596 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is a very good video. I love all historical locations. My dad told me about many of these locations in Europe during his war years.Ask a historian I planned of coming to Europe to see for myself. I retired in 2013 6monts later I had a major MS relapse. My doctor tells me I cannot travel long distances because I stay sick. Maybe someday I can get better and so some things I had planned to do. You have done an excellent job with this video. I think u like myself are, a little inquisitive in what is under the slabs. Maybe you can travel all you like👍🇺🇸

  • @rodolfoayalajr.8589
    @rodolfoayalajr.8589 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video friend. Beautiful old structures in that old cemetery. Please read dates. I love ❤️ it. Amen 🙏.

  • @mariemadinger4997
    @mariemadinger4997 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have a crazy question do people do these because they don't want to be in the ground? I don't know anything about it it's amazing

    • @teresascaggs7804
      @teresascaggs7804 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As far as I know that the reason. They don't want to be in the ground.

  • @whitebird357
    @whitebird357 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Amazing history there.

  • @sylviaburns2995
    @sylviaburns2995 ปีที่แล้ว

    The door that is ," miles away" reminds me of the hallways at the hospital that I work... so long and far away to the end...

  • @lightdancer2251
    @lightdancer2251 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow you do a great job filming.. I’m new to your channel and love it..

  • @bionicnichola9251
    @bionicnichola9251 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow ! what a cemetery Dan !! 😊

  • @MaryBethPetra
    @MaryBethPetra ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s always so sad to see when these historic places aren’t maintained well, like Highgate in London.

  • @myriadhues457
    @myriadhues457 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    really fascinating place, i love seeing the different grave symbols too. One in particular was an hourglass with bat wings. It means that life is fleeting, though I usually see them with dove's wings. With the bat wings it probably has a connotation of death visits all too soon.

  • @fionagreenwood3231
    @fionagreenwood3231 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are so brave honestly

  • @F4Insight-uq6nt
    @F4Insight-uq6nt ปีที่แล้ว +1

    10:49 Imagine it was dark and just a few candles lining the walls.. The think of the Phantasm Films and one of those Silver Balls hovering at the end of the corridor..
    The Tall Man. : "They say when you die that you go to heaven.. You don't you come to us!"

  • @nancysantamarialatica1141
    @nancysantamarialatica1141 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Trippy 111k views so far, that was 1 year ago.

  • @binflynn1
    @binflynn1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wwill be in Brussels soon I must call and see this very interesting indeed thank you

  • @rosiemcnaughton9933
    @rosiemcnaughton9933 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm with you Dead Good. I've never seen a cemetery like this in all the many videos I've watched, and no one has ever talked about it. Just before you said the underground was straight out of a horror movie, I was thinking it reminds me of the halls in all the abandoned asylums videos I've seen. 😱❤

  • @bridgittethompson2267
    @bridgittethompson2267 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an awesome and amazing crypt

  • @susanh3342
    @susanh3342 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't wait, your video's are awesome 😊

  • @pamgross1784
    @pamgross1784 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This place is amazing. I would travel to Brussels just to see this place. Can't even imagine the cost to build this place. Wonder how many people are buried just in the underground itself?

  • @deborahdanhauer8525
    @deborahdanhauer8525 ปีที่แล้ว

    That cemetery is really disturbing, especially the crypts. More so than most others I’ve seen.😔❤️🐝

  • @LadyStardust45
    @LadyStardust45 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just to let you know, just after the Van de Burgh tomb, someone told you to get out...lol. Brilliant video. Xx

  • @susanjoseph2380
    @susanjoseph2380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My cousins when they would travel would send my mother Belgium dark chocolate. The best in the world❤

  • @dclxvi.tattoo
    @dclxvi.tattoo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    15:27 literally 😅

  • @sabinefenner8544
    @sabinefenner8544 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Unfortunately I missed it live, my internet went on strike 😢...but just watched it...it's always fascinating how huge it all is...and I'm still wondering why the huge monuments above and the bodies below in the crypt 🤔....very Impressive...again and again...
    Thanks for showing us...😊, and for remember them....

  • @suzanparrish4798
    @suzanparrish4798 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @rattylol
    @rattylol ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you. You should check out CIMITERO MONUMENTALE DE MILANO (Milan) Fantastic although that church where you are is surely beautiful.

  • @kathsmith4924
    @kathsmith4924 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what an amazing cemetery i wonder what the oldest burial was

  • @krissymarie5211
    @krissymarie5211 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m looking forward to seeing this❤

  • @peterneijs387
    @peterneijs387 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dead end ...love it

  • @teresascaggs7804
    @teresascaggs7804 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the tour, but wish you read the dates. Love to know how old the graves are and give an idea how old the cemetery are.

  • @CathyTx2001
    @CathyTx2001 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Sorry I missed the live chat. I was in the hospital. Luckily the docs think I was taking this certain medication that no longer worked for me and in fact was causing an irregular heartbeat. Glad to be back home and will sleep in my own bed. 🌹

  • @teenacomer7989
    @teenacomer7989 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really like this video going down in the crypts. Does look very eerie out of a horror movie!! The weather was perfect gloomy over cast sky.

  • @weerwolfable
    @weerwolfable ปีที่แล้ว

    About you question regarding the material used for the vaults and gravestones most of the stones are from granite and Arduin (bluestone)

  • @Elizabethvaughan1
    @Elizabethvaughan1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very interesting! Watching live from Florida,USA .

    • @1953beetle
      @1953beetle ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me,I'm from Queensland,Australia.

    • @dulcehajjar5826
      @dulcehajjar5826 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watching from
      Chicago 🇺🇸
      Illinois State

  • @alainjanssens8700
    @alainjanssens8700 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It s mostly Belgian bleu hard stone marble. Did you see the Thinker of Rodin?

  • @chloerasmussen8002
    @chloerasmussen8002 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty impressive.

  • @alainjanssens8700
    @alainjanssens8700 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Royal crypte is open every Sunday from 2pm until 4pm

  • @lancebon2931
    @lancebon2931 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mausoleums inside a mausoleum. Like a painting in a painting very Flemish/Dutch.

  • @tinasummers4578
    @tinasummers4578 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never saw a Cemetery that looks like this different 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @DJ-bh1ju
    @DJ-bh1ju 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    At 32:30 you came up out of the crypt and there were rows of orderly graves. You skipped over them and went elsewhere. What were those and why did you skip them? I looked them up on Google Earth and there was no info on them there either.

  •  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic... 🦇

  • @IrishAnnie
    @IrishAnnie ปีที่แล้ว

    Notice the glass blocks on the ground. These are to give light in the crypts.

  • @alexjohnson1612
    @alexjohnson1612 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watched a clip on why the crypts are oderless, they have drains below them for bodily fluids & air vents upwards.

  • @virginiaasher9781
    @virginiaasher9781 ปีที่แล้ว

    Works of art

  • @jutiansmith5689
    @jutiansmith5689 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And amazing crypt!