"Grote Markt" Grote Markt Tip by OlafS

The Grote Market (Great Marketsquare) is the big square that forms the heart of the city. Here you'll find the city hall and houses from the 16th and 17th century, coming in different styles. The picture illustrates this. From left to right: Renaissance, Gothic, Gothic, Mannerism, Renaissance again. If you like this picture and want to make one yourself you'd better do it in the afternoon if you want the sun to be at the right place.
Like many such squares in the former duchy of Brabant it has a triangular shape, a so-called Frankish triangle. If the whole idea of a triangular square seems odd: it was an Angolsaxon idea to call squares "square"; in Dutch we don't use geometric terms for these places.

Address: Grote Markt
Directions: between the Cathedral and the river Schelde