Step Into History
Walk Bruges in 1440
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Step Into History · City walk
Van Eyck's Bruges, 1440
Bruges in 1440 is a flourishing Burgundian mercantile centre where dukes, merchants and craftsmen meet amid canals and stepped-gable streets. The walk passes the ducal Prinsenhof and its festival spaces, the busy Beurse where foreign bankers gather, the brick spire of Our Lady's Church, grand canal-front palaces and the quarters of illuminators and panel painters.
37 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 15 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Bruges as it stood in 1440 (“Burgundian Netherlands”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Road from Damme
- 2. Gentpoort
- ↳ Gentpoort Guardroom · interior
- 3. Steenstraat
- 4. Vlamingstraat
- 5. Verversstraat
- ↳ Dyer's Workshop · interior
- 6. De Beurse
- 7. Beurse Loggia
- ↳ Beurse Loggia Counting-house · interior
- 8. Vleeshuis
- ↳ Great Hall of the Vleeshuis · interior
- 9. Grote Markt and Belfort
- ↳ Belfry Treasury and Archive · interior
- 10. Lakenhalle
- ↳ Cloth Hall Interior · interior
- 11. Burg Square
- ↳ City Council Chamber · interior
- 12. Prinsenhof
- ↳ Ducal Banquet Hall · interior
- 13. Prinsenhof Courtyard
- ↳ Golden Fleece Chapter Hall · interior
- 14. Huis Gruuthuse
- ↳ Gruuthuse Grand Chamber · interior
- 15. Dijver Quay
- 16. Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
- ↳ South Choir Chapels · interior
- ↳ Sacristy with Reliquaries · interior
- 17. Sint-Donatiaanskerk
- ↳ Donatian Choir and Stalls · interior
- 18. Langerei
- 19. Vismarkt
- 20. Van Eyck's Workshop
- ↳ Van Eyck's Painting Studio · interior
- 21. Guild Quarter
- ↳ Illuminators' Workshop · interior
- 22. Market View toward Belfort