ARTISTIC CANAL CITY
Flemish-specking (Dutch dialect) Ghent was a rich and powerful city in the Middle Ages. Located in Flanders the northern region of Belgium, Ghent is more specifically the provincial capital of East Flanders. Today, this creative, tolerant canal city steeped in history is filled with a wealth of Gothic and Flemish architecture.
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