Begijnhof O.L.V. ter Hoyen / Klein Begijnhof Gent
Walled seventeenth-century beguine enclave of white houses, a baroque church and a quiet meadow.
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This guide to the Klein Begijnhof, the small beguinage of Our Lady ter Hoyen in Ghent, follows the walled community of single religious women who lived here, and a city budget decision in the eighteen-sixties that put both of Ghent's beguinages under pressure. A Duke of Arenberg turns up, and so does the fate of the larger beguinage across town. Best heard just inside the gate, looking across the meadow.
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