Church of Our Lady
Gothic church with the world's second-highest brick tower and a marble Madonna by Michelangelo.
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This guide to the Church of Our Lady in Bruges begins beneath the glass floor, at the tomb of Mary of Burgundy, whose funeral was paid for by melting down the household's own dinner silver. It follows her final weeks in 1482, after a hawking accident near Wijnendale Castle left her hiding the extent of her injury from her husband, Maximilian of Austria, while pregnant and only twenty-five. You'll hear how her father Charles the Bold's own wars had already emptied the family treasury before that. Stand at the glass floor for the view the guide keeps returning to.
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