Ballodromes

Ballodromes lists and indexes nearly 400 pelota ball courts and as many villages in Flanders and Wallonia.

Long considered one of the most popular sports in Belgium, pelota ball has the particularity of having courts marked out by white lines painted on the ground in village squares.

Through Andy Simon’s observant and methodical eye, the book Ballodromes bears witness to the evolution of a territory and its uses, to the transformation of these squares where the social life of a village was once embodied.