Nieuwpoort Marina

Nieuwpoort marina

In the webcam you can see the marina of the city of Nieuwpoort, located in West Flanders on the coast of the North Sea. The port in the online camera is a popular place for boat trips on boats, yachts, motor boats. In a live broadcast in good weather, you can watch the movement of ships.

Nieuwpoort

The name of the city in the webcam is translated from Flemish as “New Port”. In this settlement, its past and present are clearly structured – the historical building of the Old Town is located at a distance of 3 km from the sea, while the modern resort area is located at the mouth of the Yser River.

The population of miniature Nieuwpoort where the online broadcast is conducted from, is only 11,000 people. It received the city title thanks to Count Philip of Flanders, who decided to move here in 1163 the online harbor, which was previously located in Zandhof.

Nieuwpoort in this web camea is a very attractive town with compact white houses with tiled roofs and narrow streets. Among the houses, the facades of which are enlivened by interspersed with pink brick, there are footpaths in the direction to the central square.

The traditional architectural dominant of a European town in this online camera is a huge Gothic temple built in honor of the Mother of God. After severe destruction during the First World War, this religious building took on the appearance familiar to its contemporaries in 1922. Nearby stands a monument – a silent memory of the fallen.

West Flanders

West-Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), streamed online, is the westernmost part of the province of Flanders and Belgium. It has borders with the Netherlands, the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and Hainaut, France and the North Sea. The provincial capital is the city of Bruges.

West Flanders online coverage covers 3151 km2 and its population is 1.129.000 people. The province is divided into eight administrative regions and includes 64 municipalities.

The entire coast of Belgium near the North Sea (the main tourist destination in the state) is located in West Flanders. A tram line runs along the entire coast through the resorts that can be seen online on the Baltic Live Cam website – De Panne, Oostende and Knokke-Heist, so it is easy to get here without a car.

Belgium

Belgium, where the live broadcast is coming from, is a small state in the center of Western Europe, surrounded by France, Holland, Germany and Luxembourg. The territory of the country runs from northwest to southeast, from the dunes of the North Sea coast to the Ardennes Heights. The capital of the state is the city of Brussels, which can also be seen in the webcam on the Baltic Live Cam website.

The largest cities in Belgium are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liege, Bruges.

Climate

Belgian weather is influenced by maritime air masses and the warm currents of the North Atlantic. The climate in the country is close to temperate, maritime, with a lot of precipitation. Winters are mild and summers are cool. The average temperature on the coast is +3C in January and +19C in July.

Weather forecast in Belgium for 7 days is available on our website online.

Watch other nice Baltic Live Cam live stream from Belgium – Blankenberg beach. As also, Baltic Live Cam has many online cams scattered across the globe. Many beautiful old town squares such as the Riga Cathedral Square in Latvia and the Vilnius Cathedral Square in Lithuania are captured on live webcam online.