Step Into History
Walk Bruges in 1895
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Step Into History · City walk
Bruges-la-Morte, 1895
This is Bruges at the fin de siècle, the city Rodenbach called ‘dead’ yet already waking to visitors and antiquarian care. The walk shows its still canals with swans, beguines in the Beguinage, lace makers at doorways, and the neo‑Gothic faces put back on medieval façades as English sketchers settle with their pads.
34 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Bruges as it stood in 1895 (“Bruges-la-Morte”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Railway Approach
- ↳ Railway Waiting Room · interior
- 2. Steenstraat
- 3. 't Zand Square
- 4. Market Square
- 5. Belfry and Cloth Hall
- ↳ Cloth Hall Trading Hall · interior
- ↳ Belfry Bell Chamber · interior
- 6. Provinciaal Hof
- 7. Burg Square
- ↳ Gothic Council Hall · interior
- 8. Heilig-Bloedkapel
- ↳ Holy Blood Chapel Interior · interior
- 9. St Salvator's Cathedral
- ↳ Cathedral Nave and Choir · interior
- 10. Vlamingstraat
- ↳ Lace-makers' Workshop · interior
- 11. Verversstraat
- ↳ Doorway Lace Room · interior
- 12. Garenmarkt
- ↳ Vleeshuis Meat Hall · interior
- 13. Rozenhoedkaai
- ↳ Canal Inn Parlour · interior
- 14. Dijver Quay
- 15. Gruuthuse House
- ↳ Gruuthuse Display Gallery · interior
- 16. Langerei
- 17. Spinolarei
- 18. Minnewater Bridge
- 19. Begijnhof (Ten Wijngaerde)
- ↳ Beguinage Church Nave · interior
- 20. Jeruzalem Church
- ↳ Jeruzalem Chapel Interior · interior
- 21. Groeninge Vista