Bruges' 10 Unmissable Events and Festivals in Summer 2014 — theculturetrip.com

Lichtfeest is a unique, enchanting festival of fire installations, light, music, art, and street performances, illuminating two summer nights in August every year in Lissewege, an otherwise sleepy, yet quintessentially quaint town of whitewashed houses, tucked away in West Flanders. Lissewege is still one of the most bijou of Belgium’s communities, steeped in history, and preserved in the past. In fact, the town was once a stop-off point for pilgrims from the north, on the road to Santiago de Compostela where they would stay at St. Jakob House, still in existence. Lissewege is easily accessible to visitors with a 20-minute train journey from the city of Bruges.

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