Always something to experience: culture, heritage and nature
Bruges is a multi-faceted city, spanning the past, present and future. A wide range of museums and sights are waiting for you to explore. By yourself, with your partner, with family or friends: you won't know where to look first! Delve into the city and soak up its rich cultural landscape, heritage and cordial residents. Experience Bruges to the fullest, and take in all it has to offer. We guarantee our charming streets, squares and parks will warm your heart.
In the Presbytery, in the shadow of the Church of Our Lady of the Visitation, you will find the Saints Museum with a unique collection of statues of patron saints... -
In memory of all the fishermen who never returned, a sixteen-meter-high concrete cross was erected in the fishing port as early as 1936 in line with the plans of Bruges architect Jozef Viérin...
The Basilica of the Holy Blood was elevated to the status of Basilica in 1923, due to the special veneration of the Holy Blood...
The Guild of Saint Sebastian is an archers’ guild that has already been in existence for more than 600 years, which is unprecedented anywhere in the world...
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This residential area with social housing in West Bruges might seem light-hearted, but make no mistake...
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Bruges’ oldest parish church (12th–15th century) has amongst its treasures a rood loft with an organ, medieval tombs, Brussels tapestries and a rich collection of Flemish paintings (14th-18th century)...
Niobe, is distraught, absolutely inconsolable and her tears ‘flow’ incessantly into the river Reie...
Giuseppe Penone thanks the nurses of the St John's Hospital for their efforts in caring for the body and soul of everyone who has ever stayed here...
With 'hospitality' as a central theme, the museum immerses you in the history of care and healing...
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In the Cloth Halls, you can admire a fantastic collection of world-famous graphics and statues by the great artist Salvador Dalí...
In this church, the only one in the city centre with a tower clock, many of the great Bruges artists have been buried...
The work of art by Jean Bilquin that forms part of the Beaufort Sculpture Park along the Belgian coast...
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St Magdalene’s Church (Madeleine in Brugge) is one of the earliest neo-Gothic churches in continental Europe...
This simple Gothic single-nave church, built in the 17th century, surprises with the opulence of its rich Baroque interior - the result of donations by wealthy local patrons...
80 homes on 1 hectare of grounds: these won Pandreitje a well-deserved Belgian architecture Award...
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It can get very busy at Musea Brugge's reception pavilion at times, as this is where you buy your entrance ticket for the top locations of Gruuthuse Museum and the Museum of the Church of Our Lady...
In 1619, a Bruges lay brother, Pieter Huyssens, was commissioned to build a prestigious church that expressed the values and beliefs of the Jesuits...
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This hospital was first mentioned in records dating back to the 13th century, when the nuns cared for pilgrims, travellers and the sick here...
From this mansion, the Liberty of Bruges (the countryside in a wide area around the city) was once governed...
Step into the cobbled courtyard of the Adornes estate and it will immediately seem as if you have travelled hundreds of years back in time...
In 1994, the Palace Hotel, which in the meantime has been renamed the 'Residence Palace', was declared a monument...
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The Burghers’ Lodge was built between 1395 and 1417 and was commissioned by the commercial elite of the time, the burgesses of Bruges (patricians and merchants)...
The Groeninge Museum provides a varied overview of the history of Belgian visual art, with the top-class paintings by the world-renowned Flemish primitives as a highlight...
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A 'surprisingly ‘strokeable’ sculpture named ‘Untitled’ adorns the Groeninge Museum's courtyard garden...
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