A HISTORIC HOME IN THE CENTER OF BRUGES 950,000 EUROS ($1.35 MILLION) This three-bedroom home, which has an art gallery on the ground floor with neo-Baroque and Renaissance wood carving, was once the art studio of Florimond Van Acker, a Belgian painter. In addition, the nearly 4,000-square-foot home, built in 1895 and draped in vines, has a...
WESTVLETEREN, Belgium -- Behind an aggressive investigation of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Belgium that drew condemnation from the pope himself lies a stark family tragedy: the molestation, for years, of a youth by his uncle, the bishop of Bruges; the prelate's abrupt resignation when a friend of the nephew finally threatened to make the abuse...
A TWO-BEDROOM DUPLEX APARTMENT IN CENTRAL BRUGES 625,000 EUROS ($850,500) This duplex apartment, renovated in 2008, is in a 17th-century building on the Sint-Annarei, a canal in the center of historic Bruges. The apartment has about 1,935 square feet in living space and a view of the tour boats floating by, along with the sound of guides issuing...
Brugge (dansk: Brygge, tysk: Brügge, engelsk og fransk: Bruges) er en by i Flandern i Belgien, hvor den er hovedby og den største by i provinsen Vestflandern, tæt ved grænsen til nabolandet Holland. Indbyggertallet er pr. 1. januar 2010 på 116.741.
Byens historie strækker sig tilbage til romersk tid. Navnet Brugge begynder at optræde i dokumenter og på mønter i 800-tallet. I højmiddelalderen blev byen et centrum for klædehandel med England som hovedleverandør af uld. Den middelalderlige velstand resulterede i et omfattende byggeri i sten, der i vid udstrækning er bevaret frem til i dag.
Senere sandede Brugges adgang til havet til, og byen stagnerede.
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