The Bijgaardehof, the former place where monks of St. Bavo's Abbey grew bees during the Middle Ages, was buried under the buildings of the Baertsoen-Buysse spinning mill at the end of the nineteenth century.
Things-to-do in East Flanders, nearby Ghent.
The Bijgaardehof, the former place where monks of St. Bavo's Abbey grew bees during the Middle Ages, was buried under the buildings of the Baertsoen-Buysse spinning mill at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Belgian Ronse station is today the terminus for trains from Ghent, but until the mid-twentieth century, it was a junction of four different railway lines.
Spinning mills, weaving mills, dyers and twisting mills: in the Belgian town of Ronse, you stumble over the remains of the textile past.
Between 1885 and 1892, a new port project rose from the ground along the Ghent-Terneuzen canal. Ghent's chief engineer and later mayor, Emile Braun, designed the harbour sheds.
A blue harbour crane dominates Dock North. Built in 1973 by Boom Metalworks, it was the last crane installed at the Handelsdok.
Flannel sheets, cotton pyjamas and shirts from textile company De Porre flew to all corners of the world, ending up in chic boutiques because De Porre guaranteed high quality cotton.
The Waasland was once a hotbed of shipyards. However, the last active shipyard, the Chantier Naval de Rupelmonde, closed its doors in 1996.
The Dender River takes you from an industrial landscape in Aalst full of textile mills, malthouses and silos to a green oasis dominated by drawbridges and locks.
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