St Bavo's Cathedral

Gorgeous Gent

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June 14th 2015
Geo: 50.8371, 4.36761On my last day in Europe, I hopped on the train and took a day trip to Gent, or Ghent as we spell it. Gent is a city similar to Brugge. It was a main city in Europe until about 1550. It was then that the sea access was lost and people left. The city rebounded in the late 1700s when a canal reopened access to the sea. Today, it is another well preserved historical city w ... 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