By Air

Airports nearest to Gistel are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Oostende Airport (distanced approximately 7.1 km)
Koksijde AB Airport (distanced approximately 22 km)
Dunkerque-Gyvelde Airport (distanced approximately 32 km)
Knokke/Het Zoute Airport (distanced approximately 35 km)
Ursel Mil Airport (distanced approximately 37 km)

By Bicycle

The channel Plassendale to Nieuwpoort is a channel that forms a connection between the Bruges-Ostend Canal and Iron through the Goose Leg in Newport.It has a length of about 21 km and a width of about 20 meters.The banks are the full length reinforced with concrete retaining walls.In the vernacular, the channel is usually as the momentum or the Plassendale Vaart said.Along the northern bank is largely pedestrianized and paved towpath and international cycling acknowledged.It locks in Plassendale is protected.The first lock door has yet to be operated by hand.

St. Godelieve Procession, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Abbey Ten Putte, St. Godelieve Museum

St. Godelieve Procession

The St. Godelieve Procession is a reverence to the holy St. Godelieve of Gistel on the first Sunday after July 5.Every year, in good weather, pull over a thousand extras in forty groups by Gistelse downtown.This procession takes every year a lot of work.A committee, set up specifically for this event, annually update, a few months very hard for the procession in the right direction.There are different directors, several dressmakers, makeup samples, many commissioners and some important people to the procession true.In 2000 and 2001 was the final part of the procession was thoroughly reformed.The symbolism of the four crowns, typical of the holy Godelieve was as a group achieved apotheosis.

Our Lady of the Assumption Church

is a church in the Belgian city Gistel.The neo-Gothic hall church was built between 1853-1867 under the direction of the architect Pierre Francois and was built to replace the expired Gothic church.In a text from about 988 Gistel there is talk of a Ecclesia.It is suspected that this was a chapel.In the late 16th and early 17th century, the religious wars a trail of destruction through the region.In 1584 the Spaniards recaptured Bruges on the Beggars.Ostend, near the deanery Gistel, remained a stronghold of heretics 1604.From Ostend and Sluis terrorized the Protestant forces of the surrounding areas.The church of Gistel was struck in 1581 and looted and destroyed by the Calvinist Beggars.

Abbey Ten Putte

is a monastery and abbey in the Belgian city Gistel.The abbey, popularly called "the pit", was erected on the spot where St.Godelieve was murdered in the 11th century.The walled abbey beluik with the white buildings and lush garden is an oasis of tranquility on the border between the Woodland and the polders.Now live brothers and sisters of the congregation "Mother of Peace".According to legend, the Benedictine abbey founded by Edith, a daughter born blind from the second marriage of Bertolf Gistel that her blindness was healed through the eyes wash with water from the pit where the body of the strangled Godelieve was thrown.Edith was the first abbess been, but there can be no certainty.The oldest historical information about the abbey dating from the 12th century.

St. Godelieve Museum

The St. Godelieve Museum is located within the walls of the abbey Ten Putte.Within the domain of the abbey the museum of St.Godelieve founded in 1987.It shows, on the basis of documents and representations, the history of Gistelse patroness and her ancient worship.

February - April

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