![]() For the best chocolates in town, head to The Chocolate Line, the award-winning artisanal shop of the innovative and socially and environmentally-conscious Dominique Persoone. ![]() If you are a chocolate addict, the Choco-Story Museum is very informative and retraces the history of chocolate from pre-historical times until today, as well as its agricultural and industrial processes, concluding with a demonstration of chocolate-making (and tasting!). The pipeline includes five pipes: two for beer that has to travel at low velocity because of the yeast (it takes 45 minutes for the beer to reach the bottling plant), two for water (one to bring water to the brewery for the brewing process, one to clean the beer pipes), and one to detect leaks, all in a high density polyethylene tube. The other constraint was to not go under any private land, as the landowners could have tapped into the pipeline! For the first few hundred meters, the pipeline follows an intricate path with a few corners to ensure it always stays below public lands. With the construction of the parking lot of the Concertgebouw, the pipeline had to be as deep as 37 metres underground at times. This is why a 3.276-kilometre (2 mi) beer pipeline was designed and installed to link the brewery to the maturation and bottling facility just outside of town. But there is something unique about brewing beers where a brewery has been continuously doing so since 1564! And there is something very special about visiting such a facility in the heart of the city, and enjoying a beer there. When De Halve Maan brewery decided to expand in 2016 to cope with the success of their newest beer, the Brugse Zot, that is exported to more than 30 countries, they could have simply moved their brewing facility outside of Bruges. I couldn’t help it.” And she asked to pray for the monk… whether you believe in it or not, the facts are that one day, the secret passage-way was rediscovered, and two skeletons, a male and female, recovered along with a dagger… 3. Marryat herself said to have communicated with the nun and figured that she was the 23-year old Hortense Dupont. Enraged, he stabbed her to death in the tunnel, and took his own life. The spirit of the monk revealed he had been stalking the young nun, but she turned her back at him respecting her religious vows. They invited the well-known spiritualist William Eglinton, and the famous novelist Florence Marryat to document his séances. In 1890, an English couple moved in and was startled by the phenomena. This is when strange things started to happen in the convent and not much later the nuns abandoned it: a female figure dressed in white floating through rooms and vanishing through walls, a male figure dressed in black with a grim expression on his face appeared occasionally. It has always kept its medieval city plan with its intricate streets that may be even more lovely to stroll at night. The city did not have the money to modernize and construct large boulevards like in Paris. Actually, the poverty of Bruges after its decline at the end of the 15th century has preserved the city as inhabitants were fixing existing buildings rather than building new ones. Most of houses in Bruges’ you can see today actually date back to the 16th and 17th century and to the 19th and 20th century when many were restored in a Neogothic style that gives Bruges its authentic medieval vibes. Ever since the 17th century, these timber houses were forbidden as city fires were unforgiving. ![]() Standing on the romantic Bonifacius Bridge, taking a selfie or kissing your lover on Bruges’ most romantic bridge, and mesmerizing over all the old medieval structures next to the Church of Our Lady and the Gruuthuse Palace… Bruges is the post-card perfect medieval city! Except that despite the appearances, you are standing on one of Bruges’ most recently built bridges dating back to… 1910! In fact, most of medieval Bruges consisted of wooden houses which are long gone apart from the late 15th century timber house at Genthof 7 and the 16th century wooden structure on Vlamingstraat 9. Bruges: a perfectly preserved medieval city, right? Well… no!
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