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Extract from the Mechelen Travel Guides:
Home of the Primate of Belgium,
MECHELEN
was one of the more powerful cities of medieval Flanders, even overshadowing Brussels when the Burgundian prince Charles the Bold decided to base his administration here in 1473. Nowadays, Mechelen has a surprisingly provincial atmosphere, a likeably low-key contrast to Antwerp and Brussels.
The centre of town,
Grote Markt
, is flanked on the eastern side by the
Stadhuis
, whose incoherent appearance is the result of a half-finished sixteenth-century rebuilding: the plan was to replace the dour medieval original with a delicately fluted Ren...
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