Sint-Veerleplein
Cobbled square facing a medieval castle, fronted by a baroque fish-market gate crowned by Neptune.
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This guide to Sint-Veerleplein in Ghent stands you in front of the baroque gateway of the old fish market, raised in sixteen eighty-nine under a builder named Adriaan Van der Linden. It reads the stone itself: the barrel-ringed pilasters, the sea god on the pediment, and the three sculptors whose names are attached to the carving. Along the way it touches a nineteenth-century fire and the rivers that shaped the city. Best heard facing the archway, with the castle at your back.
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