't Zand Square
Sprawling open square where a stolen bronze fountain group was melted down and never recovered.
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About this audio guide
This guide to 't Zand Square in Bruges opens with an overnight disappearance: five tons of bronze vanished from a vacant lot near the square between the 31st of May and the 1st of June, 2018, with no witnesses and no alarm. What went missing was the city's own fountain, four sculpted groups by Stefaan Depuydt and Livia Canestraro showing bathing women, Zeebrugge fishermen and cyclists, cast in the mid-1980s and loved for three decades. The fountain had only just come down for the square's 2016 renovation, meant for a short move to nearby Koning Albert Park, when it was left sitting unguarded on open ground.
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