St Bavo's Cathedral · photo: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl

Self-guided walking tour of Ghent

44 sights · Belgium

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Ghent, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Ghent

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

Architecture (20)
Squares & streets (9)
History (6)
Museums (5)
Parks & green (3)
Art & sculpture (2)
Nightlife (1)

3-hour walk past the highlights of Ghent

7 stops · 5.8 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

Photo: Jiel Beaumadier, CC BY-SA 2.5
🚶 3 min walkSaint Nicholas' Church
Photo: Vitaly Volkov, CC BY 2.5
🚶 4 min walkSaint Michael's Church, Ghent
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0
🚶 31 min walkMuseum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
Photo: Geert Roels, CC BY-SA 4.0
🚶 13 min walkBoekentoren
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0
🚶 8 min walkWoodrow Wilsonplein
Photo: No machine-readable author provided, CC BY-SA 3.0
🚶 5 min walkOur-Lady Ter Hooyen
Photo: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
🚶 10 min walkSt Bavo's Cathedral