 Go to Bruges
 Landmark Visitors Guide to BrugesFrom the Landmark Visitors Guides series. Landmark Visitors Guides are acknowledged as among the most reliable travel books for sightseers. Information is detailed, concise and current -- just what you need as you travel around an unfamiliar destination. The informative text is peppered with colorful callouts that highlight places of particular interest -- perhaps a well-known birding spot or a delightful pub down a side road. Liberal use of excellent, full-color maps makes navigation easy, and colorful photos grace almost every page. Landmark Visitors Guides are great reference tools as you plan your trip, and a favorite travel companion while on the road. Area tours highlight in-town sights and attractions, including art galleries, museums, historic buildings and churches. They also lead you out into the countryside, with recommended stops en route. The comprehensive "Fact File" in back provides opening times, fees and contact information for all places mentioned in the text. Index. For Bruges, a disaster in the fifteenth century led to a triumph in the twentieth century. The silting up of its outlet to the sea brought to an end the status of Bruges as Europe's leading centre of trade Ð everything transferring almost overnight, to Antwerp. Citizens abandoned their splendid art city and most of those who stayed fell into abject poverty. Virtually nothing was built for almost four centuries, conversely relatively little of importance was demolished. For these reasons, with the exception of Venice, no other European city has survived that can be so completely synonymous with the Middle Ages. Other Belgian cities have splendid market squares and cathedrals but in none of them is it possible to observe such a completely medieval scene.  (2/05)
VG0329 Landmark Visitors Guide to Bruges $10.95
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