Mammelokker
Former jail gatehouse crowned by a carved Roman Charity scene of a daughter feeding her father.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mammelokker in Ghent looks up at the carved figures over the doorway of a small annex built against the old Cloth Hall in the eighteenth century. It follows an old Roman tale of a man condemned to starve in a cell and the daughter who kept coming to visit, told by Valerius Maximus and Pliny the Elder. You'll also hear what this building was for, from the seventeen-forties until the start of the twentieth century. Stand on the Botermarkt facing the door so the sculpture is right above you.
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