Ghent City Hall
Civic palace pairing a lacy late-Gothic wing with a column-stacked Renaissance front.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ghent City Hall follows Jan van Hembyse, a Ghent-born alderman's son who helped seize the city government in October 1577 and took charge of the council that met here. It touches the Calvinist Republic of Ghent, Scottish mercenaries, a letter from Elizabeth I carried by a spy, and the man's exile and return. Stand on the Botermarkt where the Gothic and Renaissance wings meet.
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