Prinsenhof Ghent
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- Best time to go
- May–September
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The Prinsenhof is a historic quarter of Ghent laid out around the site of a vanished ducal palace where the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was born in 1500. Once the grand residence of the Counts of Flanders and the Burgundian dukes, the palace was later demolished, leaving a network of streets whose names still recall its courtyards, gardens and gates. A surviving stone archway, the Donkere Poort, marks one entrance. The district retains a quiet residential character with old brick houses and small canals to explore.
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