Prinsenhof
Vanished imperial palace site with a soot-darkened gatehouse and statues of an emperor and a rebel.
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This guide to the Prinsenhof in Ghent starts with a bronze figure carrying a noose outside an old stone gate, and the emperor he faces across the square. It reaches back to a palace of more than three hundred rooms, a royal birth in fifteen hundred, and a tax bill the city's burghers said their ancient pacts never allowed. Stand by the Dark Gate, where you can see both statues at once.
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