The city’s not just known for its beer and chocolate, it is also known for its lace & makes some of the most intricate in the world. It is possible to produce such large quantities of fabric for the lace due to the vast amounts of Flax flowers that are grown in the Flanders region.

“Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.”

― James Frain

“Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from the mass of grey, which takes all it has in the way of character, its twitchings of stagnant life from them. Some have been distorted by solitude, others grimace with a directionless fervour; here there are masks of cherished lust, there faces ceaselessly sculpted and furrowed by mysticism. Human gargoyles, the only figures of interest in this monotonous population.”

― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges