Bruges in a sentence

Travel note: The Bruges train station provides frequent rail service to and from Brussels, Ghent, Ostend, and Lille (France.) Local buses run between the train station and the centre of Bruges; it is only 20 minutes by foot.

In the 2008 film In Bruges, which Irish song plays as Brendan Gleeson’s Ken stands at the top of the Bruges bell tower?

Bruges was already included in the circuit of the Flemish and French cloth fairs at the beginning of the 13th century, but when the old system of fairs broke down the entrepreneurs of Bruges innovated.

This approach led indirectly to the Anglo-French Congress of Bruges in 1374–77, which resulted in the short-lived Truce of Bruges between the two sides.

When Bruges, Antwerp and Holland all became part of the Duchy of Burgundy they actively tried to take over the monopoly of trade from the Hansa, and the staples market from Bruges was transferred to Amsterdam.

Pogacar dropped Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel about 18 kilometers from the end of the 273.4-kilometer trek from Bruges to Audenarde and beat him by 16 seconds.

Ralph Fiennes steals the show with a supporting turn as the foul-mouthed crime boss who organized the Bruges trip and ends up heading down there to finish the job himself.

A brilliant dark comedy about a pair of hit men having an existential crisis while in Bruges, has only gotten better as more time has past.

In addition to Henneman’s bust of Hannibal Hamlin, the Bangor Public Library has five of his paintings in its art collection, including four paintings of Bangor and one of a scene from the city of Bruges, Belgium.

There was the danger that Rafa Benitez’s 4-0 hammering of in 2009 would remain the last in a long line; that tales of Saint Etienne and Olympiacos and Chelsea and Internazionale and Bruges would have to be retold with ever more lashings of nostalgia.

Belgium's historic city centres of Bruges and Brussels, usually so busy with visitors that authorities have considered limiting tourists, are facing an unprecedented challenge as the coronavirus pandemic reduces tourism to zero, officials say.

His fellow citizens back in Bruges were cheering him on.

One is inscribed Studio J Lintbout St Croix, Bruges, Belgium.

Mark Francois speaks at a meeting organised by the Bruges Group thinktank on Monday.

Philip Maes, owner of The Beer Wall bar in Bruges, said that he loses over 4,000 beer glasses a year, which can get pretty expensive, as many of these glasses are elaborate works of art custom made for his establishment.

Real’s place was booked shortly before kick-off after Club Bruges’ 1-1 draw with Galatasaray.

September will have well and truly arrived when the all too familiar anthem will bellow out loud and clear in Bruges and Pireas on Tuesday night.

The bells of Bruges' famous clock tower chimed to mark the end of the event.

The development followed the departure of Simon Mignolet to Belgian side Club Bruges.

There's more to Belgium that wet weather, bureaucracy and Bruges.