Ostend
Ostend is the largest city on the Belgian Coast and its only truly year-round destination. Along its wide white-sand beach is a spacious promenade surveyed by an interesting mix of midrise architecture atop cosy seafront cafes with glassed-in terraces.
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Top places to visit in Ostend
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- Attraction in OstendFort Napoleon
- Attraction in OstendMercator
- Attraction in OstendStadsmuseum
- Attraction in OstendSt-Petrus-&-Pauluskerk
- Attraction in OstendAnno 1465
- Attraction in OstendLéopold II Statue
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