The City Hall façade
Lace-like Flamboyant Gothic of 1376.
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The Basilica of the Holy Blood first (free, the Gothic upper floor and the relic display), then the Gothic Hall in the City Hall (token ticket, gilded wooden vault and murals). The rest are façades seen from outside. Half an hour for the square and an hour with both — then walk to the Rozenhoedkaai through the arched Blinde-Ezelstraat passage.
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The Burg is Bruges' second and oldest square: here the Count of Flanders built his castle in the ninth century (hence the name), and the city grew around it. Smaller than the Markt and grander, it is an architectural exhibition of a thousand years in one square: the Flamboyant Gothic City Hall (1376) with its lace-like carved façade, the Basilica of the Holy Blood in its corner (Romanesque below, Gothic above), the Old Civil Registry with its gilded Renaissance façade (1537), the classical Court of the Liberty of Bruges, and the baroque Provost's House. It was completed by the huge Cathedral of St Donatian, which the French demolished in 1799 — its site is today the square's empty north side, and its remains underground can be seen in an adjacent hotel. The square is always free and loveliest at night when lit. Two minutes from the Markt via Breidelstraat — the two together are Bruges' heart, the Burg the quieter and historically deeper.
Lace-like Flamboyant Gothic of 1376.
Gilded Renaissance of 1537 between Gothic and baroque.
The site of demolished St Donatian and its remains below.
Burg, 8000 Bruges