Onze-Lieve-Vrouw en Sint-Pieterskerk van Gent
Baroque former abbey church on a hilltop square, beside a monastic garden with a revived vineyard.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Church of Our Lady of Saint Peter in Ghent looks past the Baroque facade to the hill it stands on, the Blandijnberg, and to the monks of Saint Peter's Abbey who planted vines there in the ninth century. It follows wine, water and weather through a town that could not trust its wells, touches the iconoclasts of fifteen sixty-six, and meets the revived guild of wine-meters. Best heard on the square, then carried round into the abbey garden beside the church.
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