Large Beguinage

Beautiful heritage

This fairytale like neighbourhood is a must visit when in Mechelen. Beautiful preserved houses (some over 300 years old). I might be biased because I live in one of them.

What a neighbourhood!

All these beautiful little and bigger houses! What a pleasant way to live together as a big community. Historic houses occopied nowadays with locals. Fantastic city Mechelen!

defintely worth walking arounnd

not as atmospheric as most beguinages as it is integrated into thetown itself - but some good individual buldings

This is surely one of the highlights of Mechelen.

To my shame, I had never heard of a Beguinage, which was an architectural complex built to house “Beguines”, lay religious women who, unlike nuns, lived in community without taking vows or retiring fr...

no longer separated from the town, and not in one architectural style

Of all the beguinages I have visited, this one is probably the least appealing, other than maybe the small beguinage just next to it, which one can hardly recognise as a beguinage. Like many beguingag...