Church · Ghent, Belgium

Saint Bavo's Cathedral

Holds the Ghent Altarpiece — the Van Eyck brothers, 1432, twelve panels, stolen thirteen times and still missing one. It is shown behind glass in a climate-controlled chapel.

Saint Bavo's Cathedral is in Ghent, and this is Ghent — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 1–2 hours · Open year-round · 51.053°N, 3.727°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Everything is within ninety minutes by train and the network is dense and cheap. All of Belgium →

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Ghent · Flanders · Belgium

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Other places in Ghent

Gravensteen

A moated twelfth-century castle in the middle of the city, complete with the counts' quarters and a distinctly unsentimental collection of judicial instruments.

Castle

The record

What this atlas holds about Saint Bavo's Cathedral, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Church
Give it: 1–2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 51.053°N, 3.727°E
In: Ghent