Sint-Jacobskerk

St. Jacob's Church - Sint-Jacobskerk. Romanesque church built after 1120. The church was extensively renovated and restored twice, between 1733 and 1784 and again between 1866 and 1906. "... the Place St. Jacques, in the middle of which rises the Church of St. Jacques, dating partly from the beginning of the 13th and partly from the 15th century. It was restored in 1870-73. The W. towers and the lower part of the central tower are Romanesque."--Baedeker 1910. IMG_9904

Ghent

April 25th 2023
Dawn found Monarch Empress waiting to transit the Nieuwe Sluis Terneuzen and then follow the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal twenty miles (32 km) down to the city. Arrival in Gent was through its Dampoort. The long canal terminating at Achterdok was again lined with all manner of industrial wharves: coal, sand, and gravel; scrap metal; pipes and petrochemicals. Good arriving by ocean vessels are transloa ... read more

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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

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