Huis van Alijn
Medieval almshouse around a courtyard garden, now a museum of everyday life with a puppet theatre.
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This guide to the Huis van Alijn in Ghent goes back to the fourteenth century, to two city families, the Alijns and the Rijms, and a quarrel that did not stay a quarrel. It brings in Louis of Male, Count of Flanders, and asks what a medieval city considered fair payment for a life. Best heard from the gateway on the Kraanlei, then in the courtyard among the old almshouses and Saint Catherine's chapel.
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