STAM - Ghent City Museum
City history museum in a medieval abbey, tracing wool wealth, revolts and an emperor's revenge.
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This guide to STAM, the Ghent City Museum, follows the city's quarrel with its most famous son, Emperor Charles the Fifth, over a tax Ghent refused to pay. It moves from the wool-rich burghers and their old charters to a May morning in fifteen forty, when the emperor's soldiers already held the town. Best heard inside the old abbey buildings, before you walk through the rooms that tell the rest of Ghent's story.
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