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This Is How Our Cities Are Tackling the Problem of Overtourism

27 June 2024

The tourism industry in Belgium and the Netherlands has long since recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, with visitor numbers even surpassing those of pre-2020. However, not everyone is happy with this development, as some destinations are now facing overtourism. How are the Low Countries addressing

The Vanished Birthplace of Emperor Charles V

20 December 2023

Almost no one ever visits the Prinsenhofplein in Ghent. Yet this quiet, leafy square was once the courtyard of a magnificent 15th-century palace with more than 300 rooms, a pleasure garden and a zoo with lions.

Art in the Chapel

13 June 2022

An old chapel lies abandoned in the heart of Ghent’s Patershol quarter. The Drongenhofkapel is all that remains of a Norbertine monastery. Empty for many years, the chapel was recently taken over by the Flemish sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere as an art gallery.

From Abbey to Architectural Icon. Two Centuries of the Ghent University Library

30 August 2021

‘A mighty bookcase reaching to the skies’: that was architect Henry Van de Velde’s plan for the building that we now know as the Boekentoren in Ghent – the “Book Tower”. But the history of the university library is more than that imposing bit of skyline, as shown by historian Ruben Mante

The Battle of the Gravensteen

12 May 2021

The Gravensteen in Ghent has survived Viking attacks, the industrial revolution, two world wars, and a student revolt. But now the only remaining medieval castle in Flanders with a virtually intact defence system faces a new threat.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Lost Highway. Journey along the Kortrijksesteenweg

15 July 2020

Once in a while, editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere dives into the archives of The Low Countries and pulls out a story that is worth rereading. Consider it left luggage, that reveals a hidden gem. This week: the old Kortrijksesteenweg, one of Flanders’ lost highways.

The Book Tower’s Long Tail

25 June 2019

On 23 May 2007 Google and the University of Ghent signed an agreement. As a result, the Book Tower became the fifteenth institution worldwide to join the American company in its ambition to digitize the world's paper heritage. Ghent University Library and the Royal Library in The Hague (14 July 2010

The Making Of: Orestes in Ghent and Mosul

18 June 2019

A vicious circle of revenge and retaliation, seemingly impossible to break; that is just one of the significant parallels we can draw between Aeschylus’ Oresteia and the current state of affairs in Northern Iraq, on the front lines with ISIS. The Swiss director Milo Rau united those elements, both

Charlotte Adigéry: Alien, Intriguing and Ready to Make You Dance

5 June 2019

The festival season has barely started, but, already, Charlotte Adigéry seems to be making her mark this year. The Belgian-Caribbean artist from Ghent arrived on the scene some three years ago, under the watchful eyes of musical brothers Stephen and David Dewaele (Soulwax). Ever since, this rising

The Rediscovery of the Bicycle

3 June 2019

It once symbolised individual freedom, but nowadays it’s a source of growing collective frustration: king car has been toppled from his throne. Mobility policy in France, Belgium and the Netherlands is making way for the bicycle, with Groningen as a founding example.

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