City Centre Hotels
It can be quite tricky finding a hotel in a good location. To help we have created a map of Brugge city centre hotels. You should find a city centre Brugge hotel easily using our hotel map.
The historic city centre of Brugge is a World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is one of the few other canal-based cities, similar to Amsterdam. Bruges has a significant economic importance as a result of its trading history and its port. At one time it was the chief commercial city of the world, think New York of the medieval ages.
Bruges boomed with the cloth trade at the beginning of the 13th century. Great city entrepreneurs reached out to trade with England and Scotland's wool-producing areas and then on to connecting with the merchant fleets from Genoa which opened Bruges to the trade of the Mediterranean. This added access to spices and helped advance commercial and financial techniques. A Bourse opened in 1309, arguably the first stock exchange in the world it became a sophisticated money market which attracted the attention of the Venetian galleys which first appeared, in 1314.