{"id":313,"date":"2011-04-13T15:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2021-01-26T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T04:53:00","slug":"difference-between-belgian-block-and-cobblestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/difference-between-belgian-block-and-cobblestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between Belgian Block and Cobblestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian Block and cobblestone are not the same, in case you were curious. \u00a0The word cobblestone comes from the blending of two words, <em>cob<\/em> and <em>stone<\/em> and originally referred to a rounded rock taken from rivers and used for street paving centuries ago. \u00a0 (Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/blog\/cobblestone-trivia\">COBBLESTONE TRIVIA<\/a> for more historical detail.)\u00a0\u00a0 Belgian Block has little or no affiliation with Belgium.\u00a0 It\u00a0 is a generic term from hundreds of\u00a0years ago, given to the huge pieces of stone used for ballast on empty sailing ships, many sailing between the Netherlands\/Belgium\/Flanders and ports in America.<\/p>\n<p>Cobblestone evolved from river rock, to painstakingly hand \u2018trimmed\u2019 and shaped rectangles and squares that have been used all over Europe &#8211; dating back to Roman times. \u00a0Monarch Stone International reclaims and\u00a0 imports these beautiful authentic cobbles, the largest and most diverse antique collection you\u2019ll find in the nation. \u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/products\/landscape-stone\/historic-european-cobblestone%C2%AE\/\">Historic European Cobblestone<\/a>, to view the many options we can provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian Block and cobblestone are not the same, in case you were curious. \u00a0The word cobblestone comes from the blending of two words, cob and stone and originally referred to a rounded rock taken from rivers and used for street paving centuries ago. \u00a0 (Read COBBLESTONE TRIVIA for more historical detail.)\u00a0\u00a0 Belgian Block has little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monarchstoneinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}