Veldstraat
Pedestrian shopping street lined with eighteenth-century city palaces and a photographer's house museum.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Veldstraat in Ghent follows Arnold Vander Haeghen, a late nineteenth-century printer and newspaper publisher whose presses ran on this very shopping street, and the amateur camera work he did on the side. It also steps inside the city palace that now bears his name, where a Nobel-winning writer's study has been rebuilt. Best heard walking slowly between the shopfronts, watching the house numbers.
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