Korenmarkt
Historic riverside grain-market square lined with terraces beside a Gothic church.
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This guide to the Korenmarkt in Ghent starts on ice: a worked horse bone found beneath the square, and the medieval winters when its ground lay soggy and half-flooded by the river Leie. It follows the water to the square's older name and the grain ships that once tied up here, feeding a city of tens of thousands. Stand facing Saint Nicholas' Church, with the river at your back, to hear it best.
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