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Campo Santo, an artistic cemetery
The ‘Père Lachaise’ of Ghent on a hilltopParks and green spacesCampo Santo cemetery is beside St Amand’s Chapel in Sint-Amandsberg, a district in Ghent, named after the Campo Santo cemetery in Rome.
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Kiosk
Space for contemporary visual artArt galleriesKIOSK presents contemporary visual art. It produces three exhibitions per year. There are also smaller presentations, performances and a digital...
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Old St Elizabeth Beguinage
Beguine city in Ghent: a tolerant ‘holy corner’Monuments and buildingsThe beguinages of Flanders and the Netherlands are always oases of calm and stillness, where you might still expect to see an old beguine mumbling...
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The Norbertines’ Chapel
The locals call this chapel 'Drongenhofkapel'Monuments and buildingsFollowing the destruction of their abbey in Drongen in the 16th century, the Norbertines converted this chapel in late-Gothic style – which had up...
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STUDIO23
Art gallery in a 19th-century cotton warehouseArt galleriesGhent art gallery STUDIO23 represents local as well as international contemporary artists. It is an inspiring meeting place for artists and art...
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St Michael's Church
Church with 11th-century rootsChurchesThe steeple of St Michael’s Church should have stood out above all the others but history decided otherwise: the 134 metre high planned ‘monument...
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History on the Graslei and Korenlei
Ghent’s beauty mirrored in the LysSquares and districtsShips have been docking here since the 11th century and Ghent wouldn’t have it any other way. It is like the song of the Lorelei. The beauty of...
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UGent Armand Pien Public Observatory
Spot stars and planetsMonuments and buildingsThe UGent Armand Pien Public Observatory is one of six accredited public observatories in Flanders. Its mission is to make astronomy, space...
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St James' Church
In the 11th century this was a wooden churchChurchesIn the 11th century this site featured a wooden church dedicated to Saint James. A century later, a Romanesque church was constructed on the same...
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Historical City Centre
Enchantingly medieval and casually trendySquares and districtsGhent is a compact city. All attractions are within walking distance from one another. Two tourist quarters seamlessly blend together. The...
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Melopee
Ghent's gem along the SchipperskaaiMonuments and buildingsAlong Schipperskaai at the Handelsdok, one of Ghent’s gems can be admired: the ‘Stadsgebouw’. This building, designed by Xaveer De Geyter...
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Arsenaalsite
Former railway site becomes vibrant neighbourhoodSquares and districtsNo less than twelve hectares of space for urban development in all of its facets. That’s Arsenaalsite, a former workshop of the National Railway...
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't Toreken
15th-century guild house of the tannersMonuments and buildingsThe fifteenth-century Toreken, or ‘Little Tower’ was the house of the tanners’ guild. Halfway up this small tower is the market clock and on the...
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The Winter Circus
Old car workshopMonuments and buildingsIn the 19th century, there was a trend in cities to construct buildings destined for relaxation, including circuses. This was also the case for...
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Coupure
Historical waterway between Ghent and BrugesSquares and districtsIn the 18th and 19th centuries, Coupure was a busy commercial canal that linked Ghent to Bruges. When the first town houses were built along the...
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St Anne's Church
Protected church at Sint-AnnapleinChurchesThe construction of the St Anne's Church began in 1853. In 1866, the unfinished church was consecrated by the bishop of Ghent. You can only...
