WALKING TOUR 🎧 FREE AUDIO TOUR

Ghent: A Tapestry of Time

An audio guided tour by Jenny Multilingual, The Tourist

Welcome to Gent! On this GPS guided audio tour, we will visit 9 stops on a route of 2.18km. This tour focusses mainly on general tourism.

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Tour Sights 📸

Oudheidkundig Museum

Museum

STAM Ghent City Museum

Museum A museum showcasing the history of Ghent, featuring a mix of heritage and modern elements, with a main circuit offering a multimedia introduction to the city's past, present, and future.

Water tower Kattenberg, Ghent

Water tower A Water Tower, built in 1881, features two brick structures with a capacity of 1000 cubic meters each, one with an original wooden tank and the other with a steel replacement from 1973.

Leopoldskazerne

Forts & fortifications A former military barracks, Leopoldskazerne was built between 1890 and 1905 and designed in eclectic style. The complex has undergone various transformations since, including serving as a hospital during World War II and housing the Koninklijke School van de Medische Dienst until 2007.

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)

Art Museum A museum showcasing a collection of over 9,000 artworks, with a focus on Flemish art and European paintings, featuring works by prominent artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, and Peter Paul Rubens.

Citadel of Ghent

Forts & fortifications A citadel built between 1819 and 1831 on the site of the former Montereyfort, serving as a fortification on the southern border of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and eventually modified to serve as an infantry and artillery barrack.

Citadelpark

Park A park created in 1875 on the site of the former Hollandse citadel, with remnants of the citadel, a variety of trees, and several buildings hosting museums, an art palace, a velodrome, and a music kiosk.

Kuipke

Velodrome A historical indoor velodrome built in 1927, renovated after a fire in 1965, and best known for hosting the Six Days of Ghent, an annual cycling event. It also serves as an event hall for concerts and occasional basketball games.

Sint-Pauluskerk

Church A Neo-Romanesque cruciform church, built in sandstone, with characteristic elements such as round arches, round arch friezes, twin lights, and taper capitals, and a narthex typical of early Christian and Byzantine churches. Inaugurated in 1930, designed by architect Henri Valcke, and listed as a monument in 2003.