Brugge, Bruges - a city in Belgium, capital of the province of West Flanders. The population of 117.200 inhabitants (2006), but in the Middle Ages, in the period of its greatest prosperity to the city numbered 200,000 inhabitants.
The city has 54 bridges, 12 of them are wooden and adjustable for crossing vehicles. Worthy of note are the building: foursquare market over a large area (XIV century) with a tower height of 107 meters, the tower - famous chimes, restored Gothic town hall, built in the late XIV century, this building there are 33 newly restored statue flandrskyh Count and Countess, who were burned by the French in 1792, the courthouse, the former residence of Counts of Flanders, this building is the famous fireplace, decorated with carving on wood and manufactured in the years 1529-1531, with numerous coats of arms, portraits and statues of Charles V, Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy , Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.
Church of Our Lady of the peaked tower 123 meters high marble statue of the Virgin and Child beginning of the XVI century, one of the few works by Michelangelo, located outside Italy, in this same church is a valuable paintings Seghers (Zegers), where Krayer (de-Crayer), Final van (van Oost), E. Kvellina (E. Quellyn), tomb of Charles the Bold and his daughter Mary of Burgundy.
Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Saint Salvator's Cathedral) was built of brick in the XIII or XIV table., Nondescript from the outside, but inside is richly decorated with paintings by J. van Final (van Oost), Van Hooke (van Hoek), Kvellina (Quellyn ), Memling and Chapel "Holy Blood" or the Church of St.. Basil - two-storey building, the ground floor was built in 1150, the top - in the XV century, beautifully restored in the years 1829-1839, according to legend, Dietrich Alsatian in 1150 was brought to this church a few drops of blood of the Savior, the 700-year anniversary of the Event was solemnly celebrated the church in 1850, the Jerusalem church with exact reproduction of Holly St., Church St.. Jacob with many paintings, built in the 1457-1518 biennium; Episcopal Seminary, St. Hospital. Johann, where in addition to the many valuable paintings (six of them are painted by Memling), remains of St. cancer.
Ursula, in which Memling painted torture 11.000 Cologne girls - a work which is considered a masterpiece of the artist. Memling, as well as a native of Bruges, Stevin mathematician, inventor detsymalnyh measures monument.
