The Ghent city authorities are announcing 55 measures to reduce noise pollution in the city over the next five years. The city wants fewer noisy tourist boats, more attention to noise reduction at ...

The city authorities in the East Flemish city of Ghent have announced that they are to scrap the last 3 parking spaces in the ...

In a discovery that may change art history books, a recent restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece completed by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Belgium has uncovered original ...

Around half of the known works by Flemish master Jan van Eyck will be exhibited in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Belgium next week alongside the newly restored Ghent Altarpiece, one of the most ...

Looking at Ghent today, it might be hard to believe that parts of it once were described as slums. Ghent was a planned, upscale community laid out in 1890 by the Norfolk Co., a real estate firm ...

Strolling through Ghent’s medieval centre, it’s hard to imagine this dreamy Belgian city was one of capitalism’s earliest hubs. Today, it’s more cultural than mercantile, with its Romanesque ...

GHENT, N.Y. (NEWS10) — In October, NEWS10 introduced you to Camphill Village in Copake, New York, a community for adults with developmental disabilities and service volunteers to live and work ...

Restoring the Ghent Altarpiece may well exceed the years it took for Flemish brothers Jan and Hubert Van Eyck to create their wondrously detailed 12-panel masterpiece, from the mid-1420s to 1432.

Ghent is not the first place you think of for a cutting-edge, virtual reality experience. This beautiful city by the banks of the rivers Lys and Scheldt is far more famous for its elegant medieval ...

With its remarkably realistic depictions and dramatic history, the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) is widely thought to be one of the most famous panel paintings in the world. Stolen several times (most ...