Patershol
Maze of narrow old brick lanes, once a slum, now packed with restaurants and a summer festival.
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This guide to the Patershol in Ghent starts at a single festival table in nineteen eighty-eight, where Trees Coene and the women of the neighbourhood's Deanery set out to sell a humble local bun made by an unusual method. It reaches back to the slum these brick lanes once were, and to the August street party the quarter still throws for itself, brass band, folk ball, dialect Mass and all. Best heard standing in one of the narrow alleys off the main lane.
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