This 7700-sq-metre garden and hot-garden with more than 1500 plants (plus live bird spiders) has a broader age appeal than its sister museum, the House. It's somewhere the kids can come to learn and have fun, while their custodians can relax a little and enjoy the natural beauty of the plants and garden. The admission fee grants entry to both complexes.
De Wereld van Kina: de Tuin
Ghent
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The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
0.79 MILES
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23.8 MILES
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23.86 MILES
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Gravensteen
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Basiliek van het Heilig Bloed
23.87 MILES
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Stadhuis
23.85 MILES
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29.32 MILES
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23.84 MILES
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Nearby Ghent attractions
1. MIAT
0.38 MILES
In a five-floor 19th-century mill-factory building, this thought-provoking museum celebrates Ghent’s history of textile production and examines the social…
2. Huis van Alijn
0.49 MILES
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3. Patershol
0.49 MILES
Dotted with half-hidden restaurants, enchanting Patershol is a web of twisting cobbled lanes. Its old-world houses were once home to leather tradesmen and…
4. Vrijdagmarkt
0.51 MILES
Once the city’s forum for public meetings and executions, this large square is named for its Friday market (still held). Tempting cafés sit beneath step…
6. St-Jacobskerk
0.55 MILES
The Romanesque twin towers of this iconic church date from the 12th century but the church itself has undergone numerous expansions, renovations and…
7. Gravensteen
0.55 MILES
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8. Prinsenhof
0.59 MILES
Originally the residence of the Count of Flanders and the birthplace of Charles V in 1500, the Prinsenhof was a walled castle with 300 rooms, a zoo and a…