Castle of the Counts
Moated twelfth-century stone fortress of the Counts of Flanders, later a mint, prison and cotton mill.
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This guide to the Gravensteen, the Castle of the Counts in Ghent, follows the money through a fortress built in eleven eighty to keep the city's merchants in line. It moves from the count who walked out in the fourteenth century to the mint that moved in, and on to the industrial age, when a cotton mill and its workers took over the old stones. Best heard from the square in front of the gatehouse, where you can see the towers.
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