Portus Ganda
City marina where two rivers meet, watched over by a bright red guerrilla sculpture of a girl.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Portus Ganda, the marina in Ghent, is about the bright red girl sitting by its water and the sculptor, Johan Meirlaen, who made her. It starts on a night in twenty fourteen, when the sculptor and a friend went out on the river with a statue nobody had asked for. Along the way you'll meet the Rhine siren she was nicknamed after, a Brussels university with an offer, and the neighbours of the Van Eyck swimming pool. Stand at the water's edge where you can see her face.
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