Bruges

Brugge. The Venice of the North. Medieval Manhattan. The city that time forgot – until Instagram found it. A fairytale frozen in cobblestones and canals, where every chocolate shop window and lace curtain beckons for your selfie.

But here's the Bruges paradox: pristine yet gritty. Frozen yet flowing. Those peaceful windmills on the ramparts? Former watchtowers scanning for rival merchants and enemy fleets. Those museum-perfect guild houses? Former headquarters of Europe's first banking cartels and wool smuggling empires.

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