More Beautiful Bruges

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The entrance to the Church of the Precious Blood is directly adjacent to the town hall. To learn more about this unusual site and its relic, click here. Here's the Grand'Place, or central square in midmorning of a beautiful day. At the height of the tourist season it would be much more crowded. Note the step-gable roof lines, It's a common local architectural feature. A church tower detail. The combined square and round tower design is quite unusual. We can't recall having seen it elsewhere.
Ron found an interesting faucet. Then we realized that it is actually functional. It's a horse and doggie fountain. This is one of the hotels right on the canal. We were happy we'd selected the Prinsenhof though. It was beautiful and in a quieter location. Click here for Regina's review, with pictures for a travel site. (Scroll down past the ads.) One of the many interesting details to be seen over the doors in Bruges. Obviously it's an important bishop but that's all we know about him. Time has erased the inscription.

Simon Stevin is a local hero, an early physicist and mathematician. Click here to learn more.

Beauty abounds in Bruges. Above is an apartment's patio on a canal and at left a shot of the cathedral tower... said to be the tallest brick and mortar structure in Europe.
It's hard to stop taking pictures in Bruges - especially when you have digital cameras and don't have to buy more film! We've posted here only a few of the many photos we took.