Historic Cities
Walk Ghent in 1913
AI rebuilds Ghent (Gent) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Ghent at the World's Fair, 1913
This is Ghent in the spring and summer of 1913, a medieval centre freshly polished for the International Exposition: restored guild houses, new station architecture and a broad park given over to pavilions and flower shows. The walk moves from the railway arrival and the exposition grounds into the compact city of canals and quays, past trams, cotton-mill chimneys and the three towers that define Ghent's skyline.
36 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 14 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Ghent as it stood in 1913 (“Ghent International Exposition (1913)”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. The Muide Approach
- 2. Gent-Sint-Pieters Station
- ↳ Great Concourse and Waiting Hall · interior
- 3. Flandria Palace Hotel
- ↳ Grand Dining Room, Flandria Palace · interior
- 4. Citadelpark Approach
- 5. Exposition Grounds, Citadelpark
- ↳ Machinery Pavilion Main Hall · interior
- ↳ Old Flanders Craftsman's Room · interior
- 6. Sint-Pietersplein
- 7. Veldstraat
- 8. Korenmarkt and Post Office
- ↳ Post Office Sorting Hall · interior
- 9. Sint-Michielsbrug View
- 10. Graslei Quays
- ↳ Guildhall Great Chamber · interior
- ↳ Riverside Brasserie Cellar · interior
- 11. Korenlei Quay
- 12. House of Gruuthuse
- ↳ Wood-Panelled Museum Room · interior
- 13. Belfry and Cloth Hall
- ↳ Cloth Hall Merchant Chamber · interior
- 14. Sint-Niklaaskerk
- 15. Sint-Baafsplein
- ↳ Choir Chapel with Altarpiece · interior
- 16. Vrijdagmarkt
- ↳ Cafe Parlor at Vrijdagmarkt · interior
- 17. Kouter
- ↳ Flower Show Glass Pavilion · interior
- 18. The Coupure and Mills
- ↳ Weaving Shed, Coupure Mill · interior
- 19. City Docks and Quays
- ↳ Customs Warehouse Counting Room · interior
- 20. Hoogpoort Street
- 21. Onderbergen Riverside
- 22. Citadelpark Belvedere