Historic Cities
Walk Ghent in 1350
AI rebuilds Gent (Ghent) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Ghent of the Weavers, 1350
This is Ghent at the height of its cloth industry: a river city of water-powered mills, crowded quays and the guilds' rising power. The walk follows the rivers and marketways where English wool arrives, fulling hammers beat the cloth, stepped-gabled staple houses line the Graslei and Korenlei, and the belfry ascends above the cloth hall.
32 scenes — 20 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Ghent as it stood in 1350 (“Ghent”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Leie–Scheldt Confluence
- 2. De Reep Quays
- ↳ Weaver's Loft · interior
- 3. Approach to the Gravensteen
- 4. Gravensteen Castle
- ↳ Great Hall · interior
- 5. St Michael's Bridge
- 6. Graslei Quay
- ↳ Counting Room · interior
- 7. Korenlei Quay
- ↳ Merchants' Exchange Hall · interior
- 8. Fulling-mills on the Leie
- ↳ Fulling Mill Hall · interior
- 9. Korenmarkt Square
- 10. Belfry and Cloth Hall
- ↳ Inspection Floor · interior
- 11. Cloth Hall Forecourt
- ↳ Counting Chamber · interior
- 12. Vrijdagmarkt
- 13. St Nicholas's Church
- ↳ Nave and Side Aisles · interior
- 14. St Bavo's Cathedral
- ↳ Choir and High Altar · interior
- 15. Sint-Janshospitaal Front
- ↳ Infirmary Ward · interior
- 16. Bijloke Abbey Precinct
- ↳ Abbey Chapter House · interior
- 17. Fish Market (Vismarkt)
- ↳ Fish Market Hall · interior
- 18. Scheldt Quay
- 19. City Ramparts and Windmills
- 20. Outer Meadows Vantage