De Burg
Grand medieval square once the seat of Flanders' counts, ringed by Gothic and Renaissance civic landmarks.
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This guide to De Burg in Bruges starts with a glass panel in a hotel cellar exposing the old foundations of Saint Donatian's church, where Count Charles the Good, remembered for handing out bread during a famine, was killed during dawn prayer in 1127. It follows the Erembald family he had threatened to strip of its privileges, and the notary Galbert of Bruges, who recorded the unfolding crisis by candlelight as fear spread through the city. You'll hear how his account survives as one of the fullest true-crime narratives of medieval Europe. Find the glass panel off the square to see the ground this guide keeps returning to.
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