Saint Bavo's Abbey
Ruined medieval abbey with a surviving refectory, salvaged stone carvings and wild plants among the stones.
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This guide to Saint Bavo's Abbey in Ghent starts with a single chipped stone column in the grass and the wild plants that grow through the ruins. It reaches back to Saint Amand and the abbey where, by tradition, the city began, and to an English queen who gave birth to a son within its walls. Then it turns to fifteen thirty-nine, when Ghent rose against Emperor Charles the Fifth over taxes. Best heard standing in the garden near the old refectory.
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