St. Giles Church
Brick Gothic parish church holding the unmarked graves of Bruges's greatest Renaissance painters.
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This guide to Saint Giles Church in Bruges opens with a mystery: master painter Hans Memling was buried here in fourteen ninety-four alongside three more of the city's great Renaissance painters, yet no marked grave for any of them survives today. It follows Memling's rise from an incomer around fourteen sixty-five to one of the city's richest citizens and workshop owners, and the church's own long history of rebuilding, from its founding around twelve forty through Baroque additions to a neo-Gothic overhaul. Look for the only working tower clock left in Bruges's old center outside.
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