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Ghent overview

About Ghent
Ghent is often referred to as Bruges' livelier sister with a buzzing bar and club scene nestling alongside its pretty medieval heart, cobbled street and winding canals.

After years of lying in the shadow of Antwerp and Bruges, Ghent, with its quaint cobbled streets and winding canals, is finally starting to get the recognition that it deserves. Ghent’s 900-plus listed buildings are testament to the fact that not only did it survive the World Wars pretty much intact, but also that it was a very wealthy city in medieval times, having been Europe's largest cloth producer and the Continent's largest city outside Paris.

The locals in Ghent, while intensely proud of their city, are very modest and would never brag about its merits. One reason, perhaps, why it has taken so long for the rest of the world to discover this little gem.

Travel Junky Top Tip
The Christmas markets in Ghent run from December 12th through to December 31st. Ghent offers one of the liveliest Christmas markets with live jazz, folk and rock performances; ice skating and carol singing as well as all the gift, food and festive favourites.

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Ghent Market

Numerous times in the past the fate of Ghent has been decided upon on this beautiful market square. It is called the 'Friday Market' (or Vrijdagmarkt in Dutch) for the simple reason that on Fridays a market takes place here. The market has been witness to numerous celebrations as well as battles. Everything that happened here was related to the activities of the corporations of which the weavers and the traders were the most powerful. During the Middle-Ages the fate of Ghent largely depended on the wool trade and industry. When the wool industry flourished, so did the rest of the city.

S.M.A.K

Opening hours

Museum:
Closed on Monday
Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm
Closing time cash-desk: 30 minutes before closing of the museum
Closing time museum rooms: 15 minutes before closing of the museum

25 December and 1st January: museum closed
24 and 31 December: museum closed at 4 pm

Entrance fees
€ 6: individual visitor
€ 4: groups from 15 persons, under-25s, over-60s, students
€ 1: young people under the age of 26
Free: for under-twelves, disabled and persons accompanying groups.

Admission to the museum is free for citizens of the city of Ghent every Sunday morning from 10 am to 1 pm.

Information:
S.M.A.K. -Citadelpark – 9000 Gent
T +32 (0)9 240 76 01
F +32 (0)9 221 71 09
E museum.smak@gent.be

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