Museum Vleehuis
Vleehiuse - Burcher's Hall. Built beginning in 1504 as the butchers’ guildhall, meat market, and as a community meeting place for the guild members. Restored and repurposed in 1913 as the Museum Vleehuis, a museum of applied arts. Vleeshouwersstraat 38
"...the Vieille Boucherie (Vleeschhuis), or old meat-market, a lofty, late-Gothic edifice, constructed in 1501-3 by Herman de Waghemaker in regular courses of red bricks and white stone, with four hexagonal turrets, and recently completely restored.
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Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions bet... ... read more 
