Social program

June 7 - Boat tour and conference dinner

A boot tour will guide you through the Medieval Ghent admiring its wide range of monuments:
  • St Bavo's Cathedral, the Belfry and St Nicholas' Church
  • old guildhalls built by boatsmen, masons, grainmeasurers, fishmongers, hagbutters, etc
  • impressive castles like the Castle of the Counts' and the Princes' Court, birthplace of Charles V.
  • the old Fish market facing the even older Meat Hall built many years ago.
  • the more than solid 13th-century Monasteries previously occupied by Augustinians and Dominicans.
  • the Ancient Port of Ghent along with its quay-walls and mercantile houses, never too far away of shady inns packed with girls of easy virtue etc.

After the enthralling historical passage through Medieval Ghent, a conference dinner is hosted in the Marriot Hotel, located in the middle of the city center.

Timing
18h30 - Boat tour
19h30 - Conference dinner





June 9 - Reception at Town Hall

Ghent’s town hall is a building with many faces. The flamboyant Gothic style of the façade in Hoogpoort contrasts sharply with the rather sober Renaissance style of the Botermarkt side. You can also see many different styles inside the building: the Arsenal Hall with its wooden vaulting, the marvellous Wedding Chapel with the counts of Flanders immortalised in stained glass windows, the Pacification Hall with its white and black paved labyrinth, a symbol of the quest for justice and happiness, and many more.

Timing
18h00 - Reception

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