Old Abbey of Drongen
Former Norbertine abbey on the Leie, now a Jesuit retreat centre set in riverside gardens and orchards.
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This guide to the Old Abbey of Drongen in Ghent starts on a riverbank one Sunday in nineteen twenty-four, where a Flemish expressionist painter has set up his easel facing the abbey. It brings in the rowers, strolling families and black-clad Jesuit novices who shared the Leie on the day of rest, and an old local saying about how those novices were allowed out. Best heard on the river path, with the octagonal church tower in view.
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