St Michael's Bridge
Stone-arched bridge over the Leie with a single-frame view of three medieval towers and old quays.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St Michael's Bridge in Ghent is about appetite and control: the medieval rule that made a whole county's grain pass through this stretch of the Leie. It reads the quays below you, the Korenlei and the Graslei, as a working port, and picks out the warehouse and guild houses where that grain was stored and measured. Best heard facing north, downstream, with the castle in the distance.
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