Sightseeing: Discover Bruges your way
It's your first time in Bruges and you don't know what to see first? Or do you already know the city like the back of your hand, but want to learn a bit more? Discover Bruges your way, at your own pace or with a guide. Sightseeing on foot or by bike, on a boat trip down the canals, or a horse-drawn carriage ride over the cobblestones, by minibus, Vespa or even by hot air balloon: the possibilities are endless. Which will it be?
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...
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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From this mansion, the Liberty of Bruges (the countryside in a wide area around the city) was once governed...
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With 'hospitality' as a central theme, the museum immerses you in the history of care and healing...
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The work of art by Jean Bilquin that forms part of the Beaufort Sculpture Park along the Belgian coast...
This residential area with social housing in West Bruges might seem light-hearted, but make no mistake...
A 'surprisingly ‘strokeable’ sculpture named ‘Untitled’ adorns the Groeninge Museum's courtyard garden...
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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...
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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...
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...
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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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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...
The Basilica of the Holy Blood was elevated to the status of Basilica in 1923, due to the special veneration of the Holy Blood...
In this church, the only one in the city centre with a tower clock, many of the great Bruges artists have been buried...
In the Cloth Halls, you can admire a fantastic collection of world-famous graphics and statues by the great artist Salvador Dalí...
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80 homes on 1 hectare of grounds: these won Pandreitje a well-deserved Belgian architecture Award...
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St Magdalene’s Church (Madeleine in Brugge) is one of the earliest neo-Gothic churches in continental Europe...
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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)...
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...
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)...
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In 1994, the Palace Hotel, which in the meantime has been renamed the 'Residence Palace', was declared a monument...
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...
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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...
