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Historical Walking Tour: Legends of Bruges

By Legends of Bruges Free & Private Tours
9.8 out of 10
Exceptional
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Activity location

  • The Markt
    • Markt
    • 8000, Bruges, Belgium, Belgium

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Pieter de Coninck en Jan Breydel
    • Markt
    • 8000, Brugge, Vlaanderen, Belgium

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    All Fees and Taxes
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Service charge

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What you can expect

Walk around Bruges with a local guide, explore the historic centre and travel back in time to the golden days of Bruges. Our guide will tell you interesting facts and stories of love, glory and fortune, but also of intrigue, war and conflict. He or she can also advise you on where to eat and where to drink during your stay. By the end of the tour you'll know more than a local!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Our guides are volunteers who offer tours for tips. The fee only covers the cost of booking via this platform, please bring cash to reward the guide if you enjoyed the tour.

Activity itinerary

The Markt

  • 15m
We start here with an introduction about the history of Bruges and the role the city played as a trading hub in medieval times. We also go deeper into the troublesome relationship between the city of Bruges and the French king.

Belfort

  • 10m
We visit the halls behind the bellfry and explain you the important role the tower has played during the Middle Ages.

Gruuthusemuseum

  • 10m
This newly renovated city palace belonged to a wealthy family in Bruges, who held a monopoly on a specific part of the beer trade. Our guide will tell you all about it.

Sint-Janshospitaal

  • 10m
We make a stop at the magnificent hospital of St John, one of the oldest still exisitng hospitals in the world and one of the cornerstones of medieval society.

The Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaarde

  • 10m
We'll take you for a walk into the picturesque beguinage, the biggest of its kind in the world, where a community of ladies have lived together for over 800 years.

De Halve Maan Brewery

  • 10m
We stop in front of the brewery to tell you the storey of how the people of Bruges got the nickname 'Fools of Bruges' and to show you a piece of the beer pipeline that flows beneath our city.

Minnewater Lake

  • 15m
By the Lake of Love we tell you the storey of why we have swans on the canals of Bruges and how the city got into a conflict with Emperor Maximilian of Austria.

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk

  • 10m
We'll tell you the storey of this iconic church, which is the 2nd tallest brick tower in the world and houses a statue by Michelangelo as well as the tombs of the last Dukes of Burgundy.

Groeningemuseum

  • 5m
We venture into the garden of the Groeninge Museum, where some of the works of the biggest Flemish masters are on display.

Huidenvettersplein

  • 10m
We take you to the old Tanner's square, where the smelly business took place of greasing skins and turning them into leather.

Burg Square

  • 15m
After passing by the old Fishmarket, we end the tour on the Burg square, the political heart and birthplace of the city of Bruges.

Location

Activity location

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    The Markt
    • Markt
    • 8000, Bruges, Belgium, Belgium

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Pieter de Coninck en Jan Breydel
    • Markt
    • 8000, Brugge, Vlaanderen, Belgium