Bruges

• Get your cultural fix at Art Nocturne, an annual fair showcasing antiques and artwork. It’s held at the Cultureel Centrum Scharpoord in Knokke-Heist, near Bruges from 4-14 August
• Find Renaissance and Baroque art at the Groeninge Museum, housing works from the Flemish Primitives including Van Eyck masterpieces
• High-street names and major department stores cluster on Steenstraat, while dinky boutiques tempt label lovers along Noordzandstraat, Zuidzandstraat and Vlamingstraat.
• Antique hunters should scour the centre's flea market (Saturday to Sunday from March to October) selling curiosities from stained glass windows to garden gnomes and old typewriters.
• For French and Belgian cuisine with a dash of romance, make for the smart canalside restaurants where the views are almost as good as the food. Or, for world flavours from Italian to Japanese, try Oude Burg and Sint-Amandsstraat
• Party until the wee hours on Langestraat and Kraanplein where the crammed bars pump out tunes from jazz to techno, blues to salsa
• Fancy something low-key? Visit Bruges' oldest bar, whitewashed Cafe Vlissinghe, tucked away down a small alleyway, or choose from 300 different kinds of beer at Brugs Beertje

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