Korenlei
Riverside quay of stepped gables and guild houses, once a medieval grain harbour on the Leie.
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This guide to the Korenlei in Ghent stands you on the old Corn Quay, where grain barges from northern France once tied up under a staple right that made every cargo wait. It follows the quay from its harbour centuries through decline, and into the twentieth century, when the city set about restoring what was left. Along the way you meet a house with swans, a guild house of boatmen and a question about what an old facade really is. Best heard from the quay itself, facing the gables.
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