Our mystery sounds
A few seconds of recording: can you guess where the sound comes from?
Inside Pandora’s Box, a mystery sound is sometimes waiting for you: a place, a celebration or an animal from our regions. Here they all are. Listen, guess, then reveal the answer.
- Sound no. 1Beneath the streets of the capital of Europe, a train pulls into the station.
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The Brussels metro. Opened on 20 September 1976, it now has four lines and 59 stations, many of them decorated with works by Belgian artists, such as the Tintin murals at Stockel.
- Sound no. 2Hundreds of dancers link little fingers to the sound of a song or a bombarde.
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A fest-noz in Brittany. This traditional folk dance gathering has been inscribed on UNESCO’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2012.
- Sound no. 3A piercing whistle cuts through the silence of a high mountain pasture: someone has just raised the alarm.
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A marmot in the Pyrenees. It whistles to warn its colony of danger, whether an eagle or a hiker. Gone from the range since the last ice age, it has thrived there again since its reintroduction from 1948, and spends almost six months a year hibernating.
- Sound no. 4Every morning, under a market hall a stone’s throw from the ramparts, growers sing the praises of their tomatoes and flowers.
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The Provençal market in Antibes, under the hall on the Cours Masséna in the old town. Growers, cheesemakers, fishmongers and florists set up their stalls every morning from 6am to 1pm: daily from June to August, and Tuesday to Sunday from September to May.