Top Choice Artwork in Ghent
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
Top Choice Museum in Damme
Museum St-Janshospitaal
Top Choice Gallery in The South
Groeningemuseum
Top Choice Historic Building in Ostend
Atlantikwall
The gripping Atlantikwall is a remarkably extensive complex of WWI and WWII bunkers, gun emplacements and linking brick tunnels created by occupying German forces. Most bunkers are furnished and ‘manned’ by waxwork …
Top Choice Gallery in Ghent
MSK
Styled like a Greek temple, this superb 1903 fine-art gallery introduces a veritable A-Z of great Belgian and Low Countries’ painters from the 14th to mid-20th centuries. Highlights include a happy family of coffins…
Top Choice Museum in Ypres
In Flanders Fields
No museum gives a more balanced yet moving and user-friendly introduction to WWI history. It’s a multi-sensory experience combining soundscapes, videos, well-chosen exhibits and interactive learning stations at whic…
Top Choice Area in Ghent
Patershol
Dotted with half-hidden restaurants, enchanting Patershol is a web of twisting cobbled lanes whose old-world houses were once home to leather tradesmen and to the Carmelite Fathers (Paters), hence the name. An aimle…
Gardens in Flanders
Nationale Plantentuin Van België
Belgium’s National Botanic Garden is a 93-hectare park located in the village of Meise, 12km north of Brussels. It’s based around two lakes and includes the Kasteel van Boechout, a moated castle that Léopold II gave…
Historic Building in Ghent
St-Pietersabdij
Once the country’s biggest abbey, St-Pieters was the original centre around which Ghent grew. Its fabulous wealth evaporated after French revolutionary armies confiscated all its properties, stripped its interiors a…
Cathedral in Ghent
St-Baafskathedraal
St-Baafs cathedral's towering interior has some fine stained glass and an unusual combination of brick vaulting with stone tracery. A €0.20 leaflet guides you round the cathedral’s numerous art treasures, including …