Godshuis De Vos (Godshuis Van Volden)
Whitewashed almshouse of eight small houses around a courtyard, built for the poor, widows and elderly.
This guide to Godshuis De Vos in Bruges opens on the deal a wealthy merchant struck in fourteen eighty: Adriaan de Vos spent his trading fortune on eight small houses around a shared courtyard on Noordstraat, offering shelter to the poor, the widowed and the elderly on one condition. You'll hear what he asked for in return, and how a city built on wool brokers and dockers came to house a different kind of daily labor behind these whitewashed walls. It traces how that arrangement shaped a small, plain household of the pious poor for centuries. Look for his name still cut into the facades facing the courtyard.
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