Groenerei
Willow-shaded medieval canal once used to water cart horses, now a quiet stop on canal boat routes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Groenerei in Bruges starts at the Peerdenbrug, the Horse Bridge, a crossing named since at least 1392, and asks you to picture what the quiet canal below once sounded like: carters leading their horses down to a public well beside the bridge to drink after hauling loads through the city. It follows that daily routine through the centuries until residents finally forced the well's removal in 1862, and considers what was left once the working animals were gone. Stand at the humpbacked bridge itself and listen for the low thunk of a boat hull against stone.
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