A stop for beer . ESSENTIAL INFORMATION. Start your visit with a boat ride along Ghent’s famous canals for the views and the history. For an eerie photo op, tour the Gravensteen (Sint ...

Its flemish sisters Antwerp and Bruges may be better known, but the town of Ghent, a 30-mile drive northwest of Brussels, ... Best of both worlds in Ghent, Belgium. By Sean Rocha.

As my train draws into Ghent station, the first thing I notice is the bicycles. I’ve heard of the Low Countries’ passion for two wheels, but quite how a city of 250,000 inhabitants can collect ...

Ghent is Belgium’s unsung capital of cool Sept. 27, 2022 Updated Fri., Sept. 30, 2022 at 3:57 p.m. Bicycles are ubiquitous in the bike-friendly city of Ghent, Belgium.

Ghent is a fairly big city, with about a quarter of a million inhabitants, but the historic center of the town has the perfect size and flow for walking, with one or more sights everywhere you look.