Atomium in Brussels, Belgium!
Published by max August 11th, 2008 in Travel Europe, Travel Info.
If you ever stop by Brussels in Belgium, make sure to pay a visit to Atomium, a large structure made out of man-made life-size atoms.
The Atomium is located next to Mini-Europe park (which has miniatures of the famous monuments of EU at a scale of 1:25) beside the King Baudouin Stadium. It is a structure which represents a unit cell of an iron crystal. True to its representation, it has nine spheres made of steel (earlier it was made of aluminum) connected by tubes along the twelve edges of the cube. The structure is 334.6 ft. high with the spheres having diameter of 59 ft. Its stability is ensured by three bipods.
via exploringmonkey
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