Sint-Anna Quarter
Quiet canal-side district where dyers once colored Flemish cloth beside a merchant family's private Jerusalem replica chapel.
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This guide to the Sint-Anna Quarter in Bruges centers on Anselm Adornes, a Genoese merchant whose family settled here around 1300 and built a fortune importing alum and cloth. It follows his rise as treasurer and mayor of Bruges, his trade missions for the Duke of Burgundy in Edinburgh and Rome, and the private chapel his family built nearby, modeled on Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. You'll hear how Adornes met a violent end during a journey to Scotland in January 1483, and why only part of him made it home to Bruges. Step onto the Verversdijk, the old dyers' embankment, and picture the trade that once ran through this quiet stretch of canal.
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