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Ghent itinerary

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  1. 1

    St Bavo's Cathedral and the Ghent Altarpiece - Van Eyck's Masterpiece

    The main reason to travel to Ghent is inside St Bavo's Cathedral: The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, painted by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck and completed in 1432. Widely considered the most influential painting…

    Address
    Sint-Baafsplein, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Korenmarkt tram stop (lines 1, 2, 4), 5-min walk
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    Gravensteen - The 12th-Century Castle in the Middle of the City

    The Gravensteen (Castle of the Counts) is the only surviving medieval fortress in Flanders that still sits in the middle of a working city rather than out in the countryside. Built by Count Philip of Alsace in 1180 on…

    Address
    Sint-Veerleplein 11, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Gravensteen bus stop (bus 3, 17, 18, 38, 39), 1-min walk; or Korenmarkt tram (lines 1, 2, 4), 5-min walk
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    Belfry of Ghent - The Middle of the Three Medieval Towers

    The 91-metre Belfry of Ghent, built between 1313 and 1380, is the tallest of the city's three medieval towers and a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France listing. Originally a symbol…

    Address
    Sint-Baafsplein, 9000 Gent, Belgium (Belfry entrance on Emile Braunplein)
    Nearest transit
    Korenmarkt tram stop (lines 1, 2, 4), 3-min walk
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    Graslei and Korenlei - The Twin Medieval Quays

    Graslei (Grass Quay) and Korenlei (Corn Quay) are the two medieval quays that face each other across a short bend of the Leie river, and together they form the most-photographed 200 metres in Belgium. Ghent grew rich…

    Address
    Graslei, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Korenmarkt tram stop (lines 1, 2, 4), 2-min walk
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    St Michael's Bridge (Sint-Michielsbrug) - The Best View in Ghent

    St Michael's Bridge is the single best free viewpoint in the historic city. Standing at the highest point of the arched sandstone bridge (built 1905-1909, replacing an earlier drawbridge), you get a rare open sightline…

    Address
    Sint-Michielsbrug, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Korenmarkt tram stop (lines 1, 2, 4), 2-min walk
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    Patershol - The Medieval Warren With the Best Restaurants

    Patershol is the tight labyrinth of 16th- and 17th-century houses immediately north of Gravensteen Castle - eight narrow cobbled streets, three named after the Carmelite friars who lived here (the paters, hence…

    Address
    Kraanlei, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Gravensteen bus stop (bus 3, 17, 18, 38, 39), 3-min walk
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    Werregarenstraat - The Street Art Alley of Ghent

    Werregarenstraat (also known as Graffitistraatje) is a legal graffiti alley 130 metres long, wedged between Onderstraat and Hoogpoort in the middle of the historic centre. In 1995 the city struck an unusual deal with…

    Address
    Werregarenstraat, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Korenmarkt tram stop (lines 1, 2, 4), 4-min walk
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    STAM Ghent City Museum - 1,000 Years of Ghent in a Medieval Abbey

    STAM is the city history museum of Ghent, housed in the extraordinary Bijloke abbey complex - a former Cistercian nunnery founded in 1233 whose 14th-century oak-beamed refectory has one of the great medieval interiors…

    Address
    Godshuizenlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Bijloke tram stop (line 1), 4-min walk
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    MSK - Ghent's Museum of Fine Arts

    The MSK (Museum voor Schone Kunsten) is one of the oldest museums in Belgium, founded in 1798 and housed since 1904 in a neo-classical building in the Citadelpark. The collection covers Flemish and Belgian painting from…

    Address
    Fernand Scribedreef 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Citadelpark tram stop (line 1), 3-min walk
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    Vrijdagmarkt and Ghent's Beer Culture - The Belgian Bar Circuit

    Vrijdagmarkt (Friday Market) has been Ghent's main civic square for 800 years - the place where guilds held meetings, where every count of Flanders swore his oath to the citizens, and where public executions once took…

    Address
    Vrijdagmarkt, 9000 Gent, Belgium
    Nearest transit
    Sint-Jacobs bus stop (bus 3, 17, 18, 38, 39), 2-min walk

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