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Jenny Multilingual
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A 13th-century private mansion, Den Roeland is a stunning classicist-style townhouse on the Grote Markt in Kortrijk, featuring grand architecture and ornate details.
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 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 historic building in Vlaamse neorenaissance style, featuring an elegant façade with a trapgevel and achthoekige hoektoren, originally a weighing house where weights were measured.
A neo-Byzantine abbey church featuring a 13th-century Virgin Mary sculpture, a chapel, and exhibit of art objects, including a copy of Michelangelo's Pietà. The church also boasts stained-glass windows narrating the legend of the Mariabeeld.
A former movie theater, De Gouden Lanteern, also known as Limelight, was built in 1921 in art deco style and opened its doors as a cinema, featuring films and live music performances.
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 Gothic church building in Kortrijk, Belgium, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, featuring remnants of a 15th-century church, a 16th-century Sacramental tower, and notable artworks, including works by Gaspar de Crayer and a 19th-century organ.
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.
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 museum showcasing classical and applied arts from the 18th-19th century, highlighting works by local and regional artists, including prominent pieces from the 16th and 19th centuries.
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.
A historic street, Broelkaai, is a devolved wharf in the medieval town of Kortrijk, Belgium, featuring 19th-century patrician houses, the Broel towers, and the Leie River.
A medieval hospital founded in 1211, making it the oldest hospital in Kortrijk and one of the oldest in Belgium. The complex consists of a Gothic church, a baroque chapel, and other historic buildings.
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