Groentenmarkt
Historic vegetable-market square beside a medieval meat hall, an old pump and a barrel-fed mustard shop.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Groentenmarkt in Ghent follows Petrus Tierenteyn, the man whose name is still painted on the mustard shop at the edge of the square. It touches on a story about Napoleon and the mustard of Dijon, a date on the pots that nobody can quite explain, and a factory opened in the early nineteenth century. Best heard standing outside the green wooden shopfront, then stepping in to watch a jar being filled.
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