Courtrai : Un Voyage à Travers l'Histoire et la Culture

A historic City Hall, built around 1520, showcases a mix of Gothic and Renaissance architectural styles, featuring gilded and polychromed decorations, statues of Flanders' principal Counts, and ornate interiors with gothic arches and finely carved stone mantelpieces.

A neo-Vlaamse-renaissance-style theater in Kortrijk, one of the best-preserved town theaters in Europe, built between 1912 and 1920 and home to a unique historical decor collection featuring nearly all original stage and opera set designs from its early years.

A pedestrian-friendly square, Grote Markt is the central hub of Kortrijk, hosting various events such as Paasfoor, Sinksenfeesten, and Summer Carnival, with a weekly food and clothes market on Mondays.

A medieval bell tower and inclined tower added to the main market square around 1307, with the oldest part dating back to that time. The tower, once the main tower of the Cloth Hall, now serves as a symbol of the city.

A béguinage of Courtrai, a beguinage, is a well-preserved medieval city district that combines a square beguinage and a street beguinage and covers an area of 0.7 ha. It was founded in 1238 by Johanna van Constantinopel and entered the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.

A historic park within the city center, the Begijnhofpark used to be part of the Groeninge Abbey's gardens and St. Vincentius' rest home. Today, it features a restored Groeninge Abbey, a visitors' center, and a museum for visual arts, and hosts various events and exhibitions.

Groeningeabdij Kortrijk. A secularized convent and former monastery, now housing a museum and park. It is known for its 14th-century architecture and is listed as one of Kortrijk's cultural landmarks.

A collegiate church built in 1199 by Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, and later renovated in the 15th century and in the Baroque period. It features a Rococo-style organ, an altarpiece by Anthony van Dyck, and gothic "Gravenkapel" in its interior.

A pair of medieval towers in Kortrijk, known as the Broel Towers, serve as a landmark and listed monument, with the Southern tower built in 1385 to control river traffic and the Northern tower built in 1415 as an armory.