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The enchanting city of Bruges welcomes huge hoards of tourists each summer. The city's historic old town or altstadt has been declared a UNESCO heritage site. An important center of trade and commerce in medieval times, the city developed a characteristic architecture still surviving today. Best known for it's brick Gothic style, the city is a charming place to explore from the old fairytale like buildings, picturesque canals, pretty bridges and twining cobbled streets. The development of the Flemish Primitive school of art can be traced to the this city, when Brugge became a center of court life and Flemish art in the 15th century producing masters like Jan Van Eyck, Hans Memling and Gerard David.Through it's various phases, several interesting buildings and monuments of note were built testifying to the social, economic, religious and cultural importance of Brugge as a medieval city in Europe. Places to explore in the city include the De Brugse Reien canal system, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Provinciaal Hof amongst others.
