Jan van Eyckplein
Cobbled square anchored by a Gothic customs house and a bronze statue of a Flemish master painter.
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This guide to Jan van Eyckplein in Bruges opens in 1477 with Pieter van Luxemburg, a knight of the Golden Fleece, and the toll house he rebuilt on this spot, back when the ground under your feet was a canal crossed by a stone bridge. Along the way it follows the trade that passed through, the Zwin channel that carried it, and the merchants of the Hanseatic League. Best heard standing in front of the narrow Gothic porch of the Tolhuis.
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