Bruges Market Square (Grote Markt)

The Market Square (Grote Markt or Grand Square) of Bruges is located in the heart of the city and covers an area of about 1 hectare. Buildings around the square include the 12th-centure Belfry and Cloth Hall, and the Provincial Court (originally the Waterhall, which is 1787 was demolished and replaced by a classicist building that from 1850 served as provincial court and after a fire in 1878 was rebuilt in a neo-Gothic style in 1887). In the center of the market stands the statue of Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck.