Ghent, Belgium is a friendly university town that is full of ancient buildings and history. If Bruges is a city filled with tourists looking for a time warp, Ghent is a city full of students and locals just living life… Like Bruges it started as a port, but unlike Bruges, it still is an important port. It\’s a city of flowers with a flourishing flower export trade.

It has museums and ancient architecture, but it\’s a modern city. True, the city center is a pedestrian area that is like a museum to early Flemish architecture… and a testament to the city\’s medieval might, but it\’s surrounded by a real life city. The tourist brochures say it has more historic sites than Antwerp and is more down-to-earth \”real\” than Bruges. While I love Bruges, I think I agree with them.

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