360 GRADI MAGAZINE (English Version)

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The first half of the
19th century saw
the beginning of the
development of the city
and its small harbor with
the development of a
sex toy industry whose
reputation quickly spread
around the world. The
number of people living
in Noir’Wen city grew
rapidly early in the 19th
century.
Fervent in the Second
Life cause, the city of
Noir-Wen played a major
role in supplying all kind
of very creative sex toys
among which the famous
“pink dildo”. Then, with
the development of
the digital and virtual
economy, the workshops
and factories closed
one after the other and
the small city fell into
oblivion.
It is only in the first
decades of the 21st
century that two
descendants of the
young immigrant mythic
couple, Belice Benoir and
Nieuwenhove, decided
to launch with a group
of friends and artists
the regeneration of the
city and bring it back
to life and to desire.
They have experienced
a renaissance as an
exceptional destination,
attracting creators
and artists, and they
offer visitors into an
exceptional postindustrial
urban
aesthetic, a free city,
open to creativity, to
fantasy and to freedom
around a new form of
“permanent fetish fair”
with more than fifty
stores, galleries and
workshops of young and
renowned creators with
its spaces for shopping,
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