Belgium & Luxembourg - Bruges, Ghent & Northwest Belgium (PDF Chapter)
This is the Bruges, Ghent & Northwest Belgium chapter from Lonely Planet’s Belgium & Luxembourg guidebook.
Beautiful Bruges usually steals the show with its atmospheric, picture-perfect waterways lined with step-gabled houses. But wonderful Ghent has photogenic canals of its own, a central castle and a grittier, more ‘real’ atmosphere enlivened by a big student population.
- gaze in awe at the vista when you climb Bruges’ 83m-high belfry
- maps
- appreciate the destruction and horrors of war at the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres
- transport
- marvel at Ghent’s 1432 altarpiece, the Mystic Lamb, one of the world’s earliest-known oil paintings
- restaurants & accommodation
Coverage includes: Bruges, Damme, Belgian Coast, Knokke-Heist, De Haan, Bredene, Zeebrugge & Lissewege, Ostend (Oostende), Nieuwpoort, Oostduinkerke, De Panne, Beer Country, Veurne, Diksmuide, Poperinge, Ypres (Ieper), Ypres Salient, Kortrijk, Oudenaarde, Geraardsbergen, Ghent.
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