Worth a Detour
Jerusalem Chapel
A strange 15th-century chapel built by a merchant family after a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, next to the Lace Centre.
- Open
- Closed Sundays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 45 minutes
- Address
- Peperstraat 3, 8000 BrugesDirections
- Getting There
- In the Sint-Anna quarter, a 10-minute walk east of the Burg.
Why Go
The Adornes family, merchants from Genoa, built the chapel after Anselm Adornes's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with a copy of Christ's tomb below the altar. A small museum tells the family's story.
Next door, at the Lace Centre, lacemakers work bobbin lace by hand most afternoons.
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