Gent Features

Gent Features

• 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

• 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... 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