Gent Features

Gent Features

• Top Reasons to Visit
  

  Avoid the Crowds. The medieval center of Gent is barely less gorgeous than Brugge, but while tourists swarm over the latter like bees around a... read more

• Beguinages & Belfries
  

  Composer Cole Porter may have popularized the beguine (a vigorous dance of Martinique and St. Lucia) in the splendor of the tropics, but here... read more

• Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
  

  Now in the De Villa Chapel of St. Bavo's Cathedral, in a glass case where you can see the back as well, this stupendous 12-paneled polyptych... read more

• The City of Flowers
  

  Every five years, Gent becomes awash with color as it host the "Gentse Floraliën"—the Floralies of Gent. This huge botanical exhibition... read more