The Tower of Eben-Ezer is a self-built castle constructed in
the 1960s by a single man in the isolated Jeker valley of Belgium. The builder,
Robert Garcet, was fascinated with the Bible, numerology, and ancient
civilizations.
The entire seven-level tower is built of flint, and
according to Garcet, was designed using ancient mystical measurements. On the
top of the tower are four giant biblical animals, and the interior is full of
Garcet’s biblical, archaeological, paleontological, and geological art.
Even more curious is that although the tower only looks
ancient, it sits on top of a vast network of truly ancient tunnels. Garcet
claims to have discovered over a hundred “new” fossilized creatures and a 70
million-year-old village in the labyrinth of tunnels under the tower!
Unfortunately, the village was destroyed by a mining explosion before it could
be studied.
A new educational space called the Le Musée du Silex (Museum
of Flint) takes the visitor on a tour of the history and use of the flint
stone. Individual admission allows entrance to several levels of the tower and
gardens.
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