Worth a Detour
St. Salvator's Cathedral
Bruges's oldest parish church and its cathedral, with Flemish tapestries and a treasury of paintings.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 30 minutes
- Address
- Sint-Salvatorskerkhof, 8000 BrugesDirections
- Getting There
- On Steenstraat, a 5-minute walk from the Markt.
Why Go
Built from the 12th to the 15th centuries in brick Gothic, the church became the cathedral in 1834 after the French destroyed the old one. Tapestries from Brussels line the choir, and the treasury holds Dieric Bouts's triptych of the martyrdom of St. Hippolytus.
Nearby in Bruges
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