Listening to the sea

Two enormous horns like those of old-fashioned gramophones are pointed toward the North Sea along this stretch of the Belgian coast. At the end of one of the horns, a bronze figure of a woman sits on a bench, seemingly listening to the distant sounds of the sea, while the other horn invites a visitor to do the same. The woman's old-fashioned clothing, the outsized bolts on the horns, and the fluted gramophone-like design all echo the Belle Époque style once prevalent here on the Flemish coast.
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