From unique toilets to cell gang leader Baekelandt: Book ‘Bruges Unseen’ shows special places

You can find it all in a new book about Bruges with 50 special places that are normally not accessible to the public.

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Toilets

The book “Bruges unseen” contains fifty well-known but also lesser-known locations where you as a Bruges resident or tourist cannot just step into. Remarkably, there are also a few toilets in the book, including a toilet in the city archives.

Fun fact is also that before the Second World War, the inhabitants of Bruges took a bath in the basement of the Guilini swimming pool, the baths are still there. The authors were also able to enter private homes.

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Surprising places

The three authors, Nico Blontrock, Chris Weymeis and Rudy De Nolf, are all Bruges connoisseurs, and yet they also made some surprising discoveries. Like the mayor’s room in the city theatre. And also the cell where gang leader Baekelandt is said to have been in 1803.

‘Bruges Unseen’ also targets tourists with texts in Dutch, French and English.