Stadhuis
Stadhuis. Bruges city hall was built between 1376 and 1420. Restored in 1854-1857. Burg 12.
"Hôtel de Ville or Stadhuis, an elegant Gothic structure, begun about 1376. The rear portion, towards the Reie, was added in 1401-21, and the whole building was restored in 1854-71, when new statues of Counts of Flanders were placed in the niches between the windows, to replace those destroyed in 1792. The Counts of Flanders, on their accession to the throne, used to show
themselves to the people from one of the windows, and swear to maintain the privileges and laws of the city".--Baedeker 1910.
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