Kouter
Historic square of rococo town houses, an iron bandstand kiosk and a Sunday flower market since 1772.
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This guide to the Kouter in Ghent stands you in front of Hotel Falligan, the rococo town house that Hector Falligan, Lord of Aubuisson, and his wife raised on fifteenth-century cellars in the middle of the seventeen hundreds. It reads the facade with you, from the giant columns and the gods on the roofline to the coats of arms carved over the stable gate, and asks what happens to a showpiece house once its builders are gone. Best heard facing number one hundred seventy-two, ideally on a Sunday morning during the flower market.
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