House of the Rear Sickle
Medieval patrician courtyard with a brick corner tower, private well and a music conservatory.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Achtersikkel, the House of the Rear Sickle in Ghent, follows the people who have worked and lived inside one walled courtyard: a patrician family, the monks of a country abbey, a Masonic lodge and the music students who practise here today. It also looks at the restorers who went to work on the old walls around nineteen hundred. Best heard in the lane by the iron gate, when the conservatory windows are open.
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