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[quote=Anonymous]^^Also when I was there one time there was an interesting historical exhibition that took you around the town to learn about their economic history. I believe the first stock exchange, the Bourse, started there and the building is there. The merchant class had a lot of money so supported the painters who painted them into religious paintings as people kneeling by the cross and things like that, and they had powerful guilds and also foreign embassies . I note this because there is interesting economic and intellectual history in Belgium (early universities) which you can read about before you go. The houses, for instance, may have been owned by a particular type of merchant which influenced the style and that kind of thing. [/quote]
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