The Vanished Garden

Where Leopold I, the first King of the Belgians, set up his command post in 1831, a void now remains. While the main building survived the centuries, this image documents the end of a fragile dream. The photo shows the final days of the historic greenhouses with their artificial rock wall, just before they vanished forever. The chateau now shines in new splendor, but satellite imagery confirms today that this winter garden no longer exists. What began as a royal residence ends here as a digital obituary for an architecture that has been physically erased.