Coin Route
©Stad Gent
In the footsteps of medieval merchants
The idea behind the Coin Route (Muntenroute) is to visualise the Middle Ages' trade route between Bruges and Cologne, which went through Ghent.
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The route with a distance of 1 km is mapped out by thousands of coins built into the road surface. The coins are in thematic clusters and tell a piece of history about the place in which they lie, through drawings engraved in them.