St Peter's Abbey
Former Benedictine abbey with a hidden walled garden of herbs, vines, orchard and infirmary ruins.
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This guide to St Peter's Abbey in Ghent starts in its herb garden with the infirmarer, the monk who doctored the abbey with lavender, rosemary and sage. It follows the abbey's medicine through iconoclast riots, revolutionary France and a military barracks, and the archaeologists who went digging in the nineteen seventies. Best heard standing in the garden near the southern wall of the church.
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