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Bruges

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  1. Basilica of the Holy Blood: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    This stop separates the city records of the relic's rescue from the later legend of its origin.

  2. Belfry of Bruges and Cloth Hall: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    The archive fire will explain why keeping accounts became part of the struggle for self-government.

  3. Bruges City Hall: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    The military tribunal will show how the building of the city court became a court of the occupying power.

  4. Burg Square: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    The vanished church will restore the square's fortress geography and the scene of a conspiracy.

  5. Church of Our Lady: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    The fate of one sculpture will show what the requirement to leave a work in one place forever meant.

  6. De Vos Almshouse: story on the “Minnewater and the Beguinage: Quiet Bruges South” route

    It will show the cost of housing given as assistance but tied to rules and supervision.

  7. Fish Market: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    Here, the city's smell and an old privilege will clash in a single decision over a marketplace.

  8. Groeninge Museum: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    One altarpiece commission will link personal commemoration, a vanished church, and the birth of a city museum.

  9. Gruuthuse Palace: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    This stop connects wealth from the beer tax with hosting an exiled king and an English title.

  10. Hof Arents and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    A former private garden reveals how the city’s museum route passed through someone else’s property.

  11. Jan van Eyckplein: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    Here, a filled-in harbor and a city program that reshaped Bruges’s familiar appearance come together.

  12. Lovers' Bridge: story on the “Minnewater and the Beguinage: Quiet Bruges South” route

    It will connect the old passenger quay with the origin of the present-day love ritual.

  13. Market Square: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    Here, an open market square becomes the setting for a bargain between the townspeople and their ruler.

  14. Poortersloge: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    This stop will show how a tournament victory turned into a year of civic duties.

  15. Rosary Quay: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    The ending will explain why a vanished product outlived its stalls in the name of the quay.

  16. Sashuis: story on the “Minnewater and the Beguinage: Quiet Bruges South” route

    It will explain the structure where a grand maritime calculation ran up against stubborn water.

  17. St John's Hospital: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    The triptych makes it possible to see the patrons, the workings of the hospital, and the source of its income on a single panel.

  18. St Salvator's Church: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    The finale will explain why a parish church took the place of the vanished city cathedral.

  19. Tolhuis / Former Customs House: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    Using one consignment of butter as an example, this stop shows who had the right to city work and its pay.

  20. Augustijnenrei and Augustijnenbrug: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    The crossing will show what the monastery risked for a direct route to townspeople and merchants.

  21. Gouden-Handrei and Gouden-Handreibrug: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    The bridge brings together the documentary name of the place and the legend carved in stone.

  22. Koningsbrug and Spiegelrei: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    The surviving water makes it possible to see an unrealized urban construction project at its true scale.

  23. Minnewater Park: story on the “Minnewater and the Beguinage: Quiet Bruges South” route

    It will show how a municipal decision preserved traces of a private garden in a public park.

  24. Nepomucenus Bridge and Dijver: story on the “Flemish Primitives in Bruges' Museum Quarter” route

    The history of the statue explains why the old trading crossing received the name of a Czech saint.

  25. Oude Beursplein and the Nation Houses: story on the “Canals and Merchants of Hanseatic Bruges” route

    The final stop connects an inn, the representative offices of foreign merchants, and the European name for trading.

  26. Provincial Court: story on the “From Market Square to the canals: who ruled Bruges” route

    The dispute over the appearance of the new institution will show how provincial power established itself in the old center.

  27. Saint Elizabeth's Church: story on the “Minnewater and the Beguinage: Quiet Bruges South” route

    It will tell how one of the women returned the church to the community after an accidental fire.

  28. Wijngaardplein and the main gate: story on the “Minnewater and the Beguinage: Quiet Bruges South” route

    It will make visible the boundary that protected the beguines' independent way of life.

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