Guided tours

The Guides of Ghent offer a wide range of guided tours. Select a tour and book your guided private or group visit. 

Over the centuries, female sovereigns have left their mark on Ghent in various ways. The traces they left behind are not easy to find, but your guide knows them like the back of his/her/their hand!

How did a medieval count show his powerr? By means of a fortress of course! The Ghent Counts’ Castle was once the pride of the Counts of Flanders. Our guide will bring the past to life for the little ones!

Opening in March 2017 De Krook has been shortlisted ever so often as one of the most beautiful libraries in the world. The library at the Ghent South is a real gem of design….and so much more!

Our guide will explore, together with you and your family, the medieval city centre. The best way to discover Ghent.

A guide takes you along the most beautiful spots in the historic centre. Furthermore, you will participate in an exclusive visit inside the town hall.

Schizophrenic and flamboyant, that is how the 600-year-old town hall of Ghent is described. A description it owes to the contrasting architecture of its façades. Inside the town hall our guide will tell you all you need to know about these buildings.

Welcome to North Sea Port, the 60-kilometre-long cross-border port area that stretches from Ghent tot Vlissingen on the North Sea coast in the Netherlands. On this tour you will learn all about the North Sea Port, the ‘access gate to Europe’.

Filliers is a lot more than just the classic grain genever. The range includes also gin, whisky and vodka. Because they all belong to the same family. Get an insider’s look in the largest grain distillery in Flanders.

Ghent, February 24, 1500. A proud town celebrates the birth of her most famous resident: the Emperor Charles V, one of the most powerful monarchs ever in European history. Forty years later love has come to an end. Find out about the love-hate relationship between the Ghent people and their emperor.

The world’s oldest profession is very well known in Ghent. Our guide will take you to the famous and less known red-light quarters in this town.

Food and sexual pleasure have always been a happy match, also in Ghent: love goes through the stomach! Our guide will take gourmet travellers on a titillating walk in town.

Just outside the centre, behind Saint-Peter Station, you wil find a number of impressive country houses from the interbellum. Discover the Millionaires’ Quarter, once the location of the famous World Exhibition of 1913.