Bij Sint-Jacobs
Lively square around a Romanesque church, with weekend flea markets and the summer festival's roots.
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This guide to Bij Sint-Jacobs in Ghent is about Walter De Buck, a local sculptor and folk singer, and the tired old city festival he found in the nineteen sixties. It follows him and two singer friends onto the café terraces of nineteen sixty-eight, and the artists' club Trefpunt that gathered around this church. Stand on the open stretch beside Saint James' Church, facing the Vlasmarkt.
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