Burghers’ Lodge
Gothic merchant hall with a slender tower where a carved bear once watched trading ships arrive.
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This guide to the Burghers' Lodge in Bruges starts at a small stone bear set into the facade, then turns to the merchant elite who raised the building around the turn of the fifteenth century. You'll meet the Society of the White Bear, the jousts its members staged, and the preachers who objected to the cost of them. Best heard standing across the street, where you can see both the niche and the tower.
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