A spiritual citadel of Flanders, the richest Flemish city with its booming port, a large industrial center, Ghent is also a dynamic and festive university town. Built at the confluence of the Lys and Scheldt, the city is crisscrossed with canals and streams. Named home of Charles V, it is full of history and monuments and its old neighborhoods and docks are impregnated with poetry. The illuminations make the night walk in these extraordinary places.