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The Belgium Pier is a pier in
Blankenberge Blankenberge (; french: Blankenberghe; vls, Blanknberge) is a city and a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke. On 1 December 2014, Bla ...
, Belgium. It was built in 1933 after an Art Deco 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 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