Why choose Ghent for a weekend trip?

Vibrant Ghent is well worth a weekend trip. It’s ideal for a last-minute city trip as well. Quirky Ghent offers a fascinating cultural cocktail brimming with trendy, modern urban life. Ghent is a city where people enjoy life: a chilled-out place where anything goes and a city that feels human. Its friendly, welcoming people love the good life. Don’t miss the chance to admire the world-famous masterpiece—the Mystic Lamb by the Van Eyck brothers—during your weekend trip.

So much Ghent: discover it yourself

See & Do

Ghent, a cultural cocktail on a human scale

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Museums
Parks and green spaces
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Eat & Drink

Eat out in gourmet Ghent

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Coffee and breakfast
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Overnight stay

Sleep in vibrant Ghent

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Bicycle- friendly accommodation

Ghent: budget-friendly

Looking for accommodation without breaking the bank? Ghent offers many affordable hotels and hostels, a campsite and a youth hostel.

Sustainable tourism: pure Ghent

In Ghent, sustainability isn’t just a fashion: it’s a way of life. Ghent is committed to the environment. 

Ghent, great fun for little dragons

Child-friendly Ghent: have fun on your weekend trip with the whole family!

Not-to-be-missed in Ghent

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  • Life as it is: the conservation of The Ghent Altarpiece

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    Hardly anyone can develop as intense a relationship with The Ghent Altarpiece as we conservators. There we are, working face to face with Van Eyck, right down to each individual brush stroke. That captures your imagination, of course. People often ask me questions about what that feels like and what our working day is like. The answers are below!
    Kathleen Froyen in een zaal van haar werkplek, het Gentse Museum voor Schone Kunsten
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