Showing posts with label East Flanders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Flanders. Show all posts

Friday, April 6, 2012

Oudenaarde


Flanders is full of tiny, quaint towns. This one is in East Flanders, a bit south-west of Gent. Thriving  population of 30,000. The town hall, built in the early 1520s, is very impressive if not excessive in detail and gothic-ness. The town's last golden age was in the 1500s, when apparently it was 'world' renowned for tapestry production.

They have cool mailboxes like Gent! Woo hoo! With Monika & Koen


Town Hall
Check out that detail

If I was an architect, I'd bring back this window style with a vengeance.