In the summer months, orchestras, fanfare groups and brass bands treat you to
music at the weekly Sunday flower market.
The Town Crier of Ghent announces the concerts half an hour before they begin
and introduces the music group that will be adding atmosphere to your morning at
the flower market.
Are you driving to Ghent? First check whether you may enter the city centre with
your vehicle. Clean vehicles may enter the city centre free of charge, polluting
vehicles have to pay. Is your vehicle allowed to enter, but do you not have a
Belgian or Dutch number plate? You will ALWAYS have to register!
Cydonia Barocca Festival: Baroque festival in Ghent
18mei
-20mei
Puinstraat 42, 9000 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Description
During the Pentecost weekend the city of Ghent presents an annual baroque music festival with music of the three great masters of German Baroque: Bach, Telemann and Graupner.
Every year, Florian Heyerick selects an instrument and brings together specialists from home and abroad to provide the public with this baroque pearls. This year it is all about the violin.
Expect next to concerts with cantatas, orchestral works and many chamber also an Open Stage, a Telemarathon, lectures, city tours, a children's program, world and jazz music, and many known and unknown masterpieces performed by a pleiad of outstanding musicians on several attractive sites.
In between the quince makes for an equally refreshing and surprising culinary discovery.
Are you driving to Ghent? First check whether you may enter the city centre with your vehicle. Clean vehicles may enter the city centre free of charge, polluting vehicles have to pay. Is your vehicle allowed to enter, but do you not have a Belgian or Dutch number plate? You will ALWAYS have to register!