Bruges la morte.

6.000 liters (1585 gallons) of organic dye in the Canals of Bruges, turning them blood red.

Bruges la Morte (The Dead City of Bruges) is a novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, published in 1892. It tells the story of a widower overcome with grief, who takes refuge in Bruges, where he becomes obsessed with an actress/prostitute who is the exact likeness and of his dead wife. The book is notable for its poetic evocation of the decaying city and for its innovative form: Rodenbach interspersed his text with dozens of black-and-white photographs of Bruges.

The book produced a lot of negative responses of rage and anger in Bruges at the time, but it also brought the first tourists to the city. As a result, the city overcame it’s economical and financial problems.

Now, 118 years later, Bruges is entirely focussed on tourists and has become nothing less then a mideaval theme park. The city has become the exact likeness of the mideaval city it once was. A prostitute for tourists.
I declare Bruges dead again.