A private day trip reaching both real Ghent and Bruges, with real Gravensteen Castle admission.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at both genuine Ghent and Bruges, with real Gravensteen Castle admission included.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include both genuine Ghent and Bruges, with real included admission to Gravensteen Castle.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Amsterdam.
Ghent and Bruges, genuinely combined.
Genuinely included.
11-12 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at both genuine Ghent and Bruges, with real Gravensteen Castle admission included. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include both genuine Ghent and Bruges, with real included admission to Gravensteen Castle.
Ghent's Gravensteen is one of the few fully intact medieval castles left standing in Belgium, and its current form dates to 1180, when Count Philip of Alsace built it on a site that had already been fortified for centuries — the first defensive structure there went up in the mid-9th century against Viking raids. For nearly two hundred years afterward, the Gravensteen was the real residence of the Counts of Flanders, before later serving as a courthouse and prison into the 18th century, and even, briefly, an Industrial Revolution-era cotton mill before a careful restoration between 1893 and 1907 brought it back to its castle form.
Bruges gets most of the attention on this route, but Ghent's own landmark is arguably the more significant work of art: the Ghent Altarpiece, also known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, inside St Bavo's Cathedral. Begun in the mid-1420s and completed in 1432 by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, it's widely considered one of the first major oil paintings and a genuine turning point between medieval and Renaissance art — a work that survived looting by both French and German armies over the centuries and has since been returned to the same church it was built for.
Pairing the two cities in one day gives a real contrast worth noticing: Bruges' center is famously pristine and carefully preserved, while Ghent feels more like a living, working medieval city that visitors happen to pass through rather than a city built around being looked at — and with real admission to the Gravensteen already included, there's no separate ticket line to deal with once you're there.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.