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Title: Belgium and Holland. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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(p. 243); omnibus from the station at Flushingto the (34 M.) steamboat-pier. From Ghent to Bruges there is a private railway (30 M.), the continua-tion of the Waesland line (p. 62), as well as the Chemin de Fer de TEtat.Trains run in 65-95 min. (fares 2fr. 70, 1 fr. 80, 1 fr. 35 c.), starting fromthe Station dEecloo, on the X.E. side of the town. Stations Wondelghem,Lverghem, Sleydinge^ Wacrschoot, Eecloo (a busy town with 10,400 inhab.,where the Bruges, Selzaete, and Lokeren line diverges to the right), Bal-gerhoeke, Adeghem, Maldeghem (branch-line to Breskens \ia, Sluis, see p. 9),Donck^ Si/seele, Steenbrugge, and Bruges (p. 11). 45 M. Melle (p. 62), beyond which a line diverges to the S. toAth (p. 69), Quatrecht, Wetteren, and Schellebelle, where the lineto Malines diverges to the left (p. 62). 561/2 M. Alost, Flem. Aalst (Hotel de Flandre, Hot. des Arcades,both at the station; Due de Brabant; Mille Colonnes), a town with23,100 inhab., on the Dendre, was formerly the capital of the
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BRUGES. 4. Route. 11 county of Keher-Vlaanderen, and the frontier-town of the provincein this direction. A considerable trade in hops is carried on here.The Church of St. Martin, in the late-Gothic style (ahout 149S\ islittle more than a fragment, two-thirds of the nave, as well as thetower and portal, being entirely wanting. It contains an admirablepicture by Rubens, said to have been painted in 1631 in one week:Christ appointing St. Rochus tutelary saint of the plague-stricken.The museum at Ghent possesses a copy of this work. A statue byJos. Gtefs was erected in 1856 in front of the Hotel de Ville toThierry Maertens, the first Belgian printer, who exercised his craftat Alost. The beautiful belfry of the Hotel de Yille was thoroughlyrestored after a fire in 1879. The old town-hall, built early in the13th cent., is now a meat-market. Fkom Alost to Antwerp, 30 M., railway in 13/4 lir- (fares 3 fr. 65,2fr. 75, 1 fr. So c). — P/t 31. Moorsel. 51/2 M. Opwyck, the junctii.n ofthe Brusse

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