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An expert guide to a weekend in Bruges | Telegraph Travel

Read our Telegraph Travel expert guide to a weekend in Bruges, including the best places to stay, eat, and drink as well as the top things to do.

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Gli allevatori belgi bloccano l'accesso al porto di Bruges - Primopiano

epa11115815 Belgian farmers block the access roads to the Port in Zeebruges, Belgium, 31 January 2024. Farmers are organizing protests to highlight their declining incomes, overly complex legislation and administrative overload. (ANSA)

Belgium , France , United-kingdom , Belgian , Farmers , Allevatore , The , Bruges , Roads , Interrupt , Porto

This Is My New Favorite Hotel In My New Favorite City

We found a perfect oasis fit for royalty in this medieval city that already looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale.

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Former EU Commission President Jacques Delors dies at 98

Delors served as president of the European Commission for three terms - longer than any other holder of the office - from January 1985 until the end of 1994

France , Paris , France-general- , United-kingdom , Britain , French , Nicolas-sarkozy , Jacques-delors , Michel-barnier , European-commission , European-union , Elysee-palace

One dead after ships collide in North Sea

The incident happened off the coast of Heligoland, a German archipelago.

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People smuggler behind 10,000 boat crossings jailed for 11 years

Police track down Hewa Rahimpur, 30, to Ilford in Essex after he used social media accounts, including Facebook, to advertise his services

United-kingdom , Albania , Germany , Turkey , Ilford , Redbridge , Essex , China , France , Belgium , Iran , Wanstead

This European country has hit 'red line' with tourist crowd

The Belgian city of Bruges is struggling with excessive summer tourism, with eight million visitors each year, most on day trips. Locals say tourism is important but needs to be balanced to prevent turning the city into a theme park. Other historical canal cities such as Venice and Amsterdam have already taken steps to narrow the number of visitors and ban cruise ships from calling.

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Belgium canal city of Bruges hits 'red line' with tourist crowds

Inhabitants of Belgium's cobblestone-and-canal city of Bruges are clear: summertime tourism has hit capacity."Bruges is often referred to as a mass tourism destination, but it isn't," a spokeswoman, Ann Plovie, tells AFP.
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"This is like a bit (of a) misconception that the city is overcrowded.

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Bruges, Belgian cobblestone and canal city, hits 'red line' with summer tourists | Travel

Bruges faces tensions over tourist accommodations for overnight stays, with a halt to buildings being converted to hotels to ensure locals aren't squeezed out | Travel

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Breakfast

david has created a comedic walking tour showing the other side of bruges through a local�*s perspective. so, tell me, where did this rivalry between bruges and ghent start? it's 1382, the count of flanders, so this was where he lived, actually. this was de burg, which means the castle. this is it. with the count being so evil and wicked, people from ghent were actually starving. he tried to starve them into submission. eventually, people from ghent just arrived in the city with the gates wide open. nobody was opposing them, and everybody who opposed them was killed, slaughtered and their belongings were taken. and as a prize, as a trophy, they took down the golden dragon that was on top of the cathedral and brought it to ghent. to this day, a golden dragon sits on the belfry in ghent as a symbol of freedom and power of the city. so bruges has the golden crosses. they have the golden dragon. yes, yes, yes. in the spoils of war.

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