OLV-ter-Potterie

Admission to this small historical church-hospital complex is free with a Museum Sint-Janshospitaal museum ticket. Ring the bell to gain entry and explore fine art from the 15th and 16th centuries. The lushly Baroque church 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.