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A TYPICAL STRE;ET in BRUGES, BElvGIUM 



Photo by Emil P. Albrecht 



Blinde Ezel Straat (Street of the Blind Donkey), between the Hotel de Ville (fourteenth 

 century) and the Maison de I'Ancien Greffe Flamande, or old municipal record office, built 

 in I53S, now used as law courts. The principal fagades of the two buildings are on the 

 Place du Bourg, a great tree-shaded square to be seen under the archway. Just why the 

 name of the street, none knows, but a blind donkey could easily find its way through, a-s 

 all there is to it shows in the picture. 



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