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Bruges


Admission to this small historical church-hospital complex is free with a St-Janshospitaal museum ticket. Ring the bell to gain entry and you’ll find fine 15th- to 16th-century art. The lushly baroque church section houses the reliquary of St-Idesbaldus and a polychrome wooden relief of Mary breastfeeding baby Jesus. In later, more prudish centuries, the Virgin’s nipple received a lacy camouflage, rendering the scene bizarrely impractical.


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1. Koeleweimolen

0.16 MILES

In the 13th century, Bruges' great walls were dotted with molens (windmills) where cereals were ground into flour – at one time 25 ringed the city. Today,…

3. St Gilliskerk

0.36 MILES

Gothic church where artist Hans Memling is buried.

4. Volkskundemuseum

0.44 MILES

This appealing Museum of Folk Life presents visitors with 18 themed tableaux illustrating Flemish life in times gone by – a 1930s sweets shop, a hatter’s…

5. St-Janshuismolen

0.44 MILES

In the 13th century, Bruges' great walls were dotted with molens (windmills) where cereals were ground into flour. Four still stand on the eastern rampart…

6. Jeruzalemkerk

0.51 MILES

Within the so-caled Adornesdomein estate is one of Bruges’ oddest churches, the 15th-century Jeruzalemkerk, built by the Adornes family. Supposedly based…

7. Kantcentrum

0.51 MILES

The Kantcentrum displays a collection of lace in a row of interlinked old cottages. In the afternoons (2pm to 5pm) you can watch bobbin lace being made by…

8. Hans Memling Statue

0.52 MILES

The statue of Hans Memling was erected in 1874. The Flemish Primitive artist is buried in St Gilliskerk, a few blocks further north.