Baudelopark
Riverside park on former abbey and botanical garden grounds, with old trees and lawns by the Lys.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Baudelopark in Ghent starts with a strange devotional painting from around fifteen thirty, commissioned by Jan van Deynse, abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Baudelo, and showing a legend about Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. It follows his monks from the countryside northeast of the city to a refuge on this very ground, through the upheavals of the Calvinist Ghent Republic and an exile in Cologne. Best heard on the lawns facing the old abbey church.
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