Sint-Michielskerk
Late Gothic riverside church with a flat-capped unfinished tower and a Van Dyck crucifixion inside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sint-Michielskerk in Ghent is about the squat, flat-topped tower in front of you and the spire that was drawn for it in the seventeenth century. It moves from the first stones laid in the fourteen-forties, through the religious wars that stopped the builders, to the architect Lieven Cruyl and his rivalry in height with the cathedral of Saint Bavo. Stand on the square facing the tower so you can follow it up the sandstone walls.
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