The Belgium Pier is a pier in Blankenberge, Belgium. It was built in 1933 after an

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design by architect Jules Soete. The concrete structure stretches 350 meters out into the North Sea. The Belgium Pier replaced an earlier structure that was the first pier at the Atlantic and North Sea coasts of the European continent, and the only other pier like it is the

Scheveningen Pier The Scheveningen Pier is a pleasure pier in the Dutch resort town of Scheveningen near The Hague. Opened in 1959, the current pier is the second in the town, the first being lost just after, and as a result of, the Second World War. History Wand ...

in the Netherlands.

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Coastal construction Marine architecture Piers in Belgium 1933 establishments in Belgium Buildings and structures completed in 1933 {{Belgium-stub