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This is the moat which was called The Three Pigeons. Yes, I know it is a funny name.

Remember Father Vinck? He was a Friar Minor at the Friar Minor church and lived during the 17th century He was sentenced to death and beheaded for betraying the city, because a few Friars wanted for Maastricht to become katholic again. However, he never confessed to being a traitor.

In the Father Vincktower he was locked up until he was beheaded along with four other traitors. Their heads were pinned on stakes and stood on the moat with the faces towards the civilians of Maastricht to warn them "if you do something like this betray, you'll end up just like them". Yes, the 17th century was cruel.
Since then it is known best as the Moat The Five Heads

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:icontwincastx:
wow they way of thinking and justice was very harsh. they could have been another way to deal with the punishment.

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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."

-Daniel Barenboim
:iconbluemorphobutterfly:
Yes, I agree with you, but that was the only solution at that time to scare the other civilians and if some of them would do things like that, they knew what was coming ahead of them... Luckily nowadays it isn't like that anymore
:icontwincastx:
true. i do remember implementing that punishment through slavery during the 1700s if i'm not mistaken.

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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."

-Daniel Barenboim
:iconbluemorphobutterfly:
I wouldn't know but that's sertainly a possibility
:icontwincastx:
i have to look into it and do some research.

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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."

-Daniel Barenboim

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Sep 28, 2008, 11:25:35 AM

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