Recently I stayed with a few colleagues in a very nice hotel in Kortrijk, the city where I really learned know. Unknown makes unloved, and it was many years ago that I still had one foot in Kortrijk put. For clarity, Kortrijk lies in the province of West Flanders, near the border with France, and has about 75,000 inhabitants. The city lies on the Leie a point where that river is split away and comes back together. This has created an island, the Buda Island.
Kortrijk and surroundings were long known as a center of the flax cultivation. National Flax Museum recalls still on. The museum is housed in an old farmhouse where flax in 26 scenes flax cultivation and development of flax processing are shown. All these things I came to know by the evening in my hotel hotel Kortrijk especially a lot to read (colleagues were quite boring and went to bed early ...).
Nowadays you can find that many historic buildings in Kortrijk by war or fire, and were then rebuilt. The Beguinage to only one to mention dates originally from the 13th century but was destroyed three times, the last time in 1684. It is an oasis of calm and there are beautiful baroque houses from the 17th century. My Kortrijk Hotel was a stone's throw from here, just beautiful.
For art lovers: Kortrijk is to be awake! The city has the Buda Island into an artistic center. The brewery tower Tack got a new purpose as an artistic production and cinema complex Pentascoop has multifunctional rooms, where space for performing arts.
Also, we plan to during our stay in one of the hotels in Kortrijk a few museums to do. The Broelmuseum to Broelkaai at Buda Island shows works by artists who lived in Antwerp and worked, including Roeland Savery, Kerstiaen The Keuninck and Louis Robbe.
Close to that museum is also famous Broeltorens on both sides of the Lys. The two medieval towers are identical, but are not. The south tower (the Spey Tower) dates from the 13th century, the north tower (the Ingelburgtoren) was built in the 15th century. The bridge between the two towers is a picture of Nepomucemus, patron saint of overboard.
