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Museum of Fine Arts (MSK), Ghent: Complete visitor guide

Belgium's oldest museum houses 600 years of European art in a neoclassical temple designed by architect Charles Van Rysselberghe. The collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent spans medieval altarpieces to contemporary installations, with Hieronymus Bosch, Rubens, Ensor, and Magritte hanging alongside ongoing…

St Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent: Ticket prices, hours, parking & visitor guide (2026)

In Ghent, a Gothic cathedral houses the world's most stolen artwork — the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. This 24-panel altarpiece that has survived iconoclasm, theft (13 times including by Napoleon and the Nazis), and a 1934 panel theft where one section…

Gravensteen, Ghent: Ticket prices, hours, parking & visitor guide (2026)

A 12th-century fortress rises in central Ghent, its grey stone walls and circular towers jutting above the Leie River. This is the Gravensteen, or Castle of the Counts, and it looks somewhat out of place in Belgium. Count Philip of Alsace built this stronghold in…