Grain Street and Grain Street

Grain Street and Grain Street are the central streets of the Belgian city of Ghent, representing the eastern and western embankments of the Lis River, on which the Church of St. Nicholas and the Church of St. Archangel Michael stand opposite each other. In the Middle Ages, when Ghent began to import grain into Flanders, these streets were the center of this trade, where their names came from.

On the streets there are many buildings built in the Middle Ages. On the street of herbs there is a Grain warehouse with a stepped pediment of the XIII century, considered the oldest in the world, now a restaurant is open in the building. The shop house of the guild of unfree sailors, built in the XVIII century with a Baroque facade, is located on Grain Street and is also given as a restaurant. Both streets in 1952 were recognized by the government as a historical district of the city, and many buildings built on them at different times - monuments of architecture.