©Stad Gent - Dienst Toerisme
A tiny store with deliciously old-fashioned sweets and other popular Ghent delicacies such as ‘mokken’, ‘knopkes’ and 'cuberdons'.
The works of mercy
The six reliefs on the façade raise quite a few questions. Where is the seventh work of mercy? The sculptures were based on the gospel of Matthew, which mentions only six works of mercy. Later on, a seventh was added, namely to bury the dead.
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