Recently, I discovered this website: ‘beeldbank Brugge’ (Image bank Bruges), where you can find a collection of historical pictures of Bruges. There are some predefined topic-collections, but you can also search on keywords. Only one negative point: the website is currently only available in Dutch.

Here are some of the collections (you can use Yahoo Babel fish to translate them):

• Holiday and tourism Bruges
• Bruges religious heritage
• Bruges Market
• Movie theatres and experiences in Bruges

Together with my colleague of fietsroute.org (Belgian Cyclist-site), I created an ‘In Bruges’-walk. It’s a 6 km (3,7 mile) long walk in the historic centre of Bruges along the main filmlocations used in the movie ‘In Bruges’.

You can find the map over here: Bruges-movie-walk

Click the links to view a 3D-map of the movie locations:

• The first pub Ken and Ray visited in Bruges. It’s called ‘Zwart Huis’ (Black house). ‘Zwart huis’ is the pub of the former ‘cinema liberty’ and ‘English Theatre of Bruges’. It was built in 1482 and you can still see some valuable interior details such as the wonderful woodsculpture above the fireplace. In july and August 2008, there are daily showings of ‘In Bruges’.
  
  

• The restaurant in Bruges where Cloé and Ray had their romantic date. It’s called ‘Cafedraal’:
  
  

Photograph rights movie pictures: Focus Features

Some more making of pictures of ‘In Bruges’. Some scenes were filmed in the Philips studio in Bruges:

The hotel were Ray and ken stayed really exists. Some shots of the hotel were filmed on this set, other scenes were filmed in the hotel itself (http://www.relaisbourgondischcruyce.be/).

Hotel-set Bruges

Top of the Belfry/Bell Tower Bruges

Stairs Belfry/Bell Tower Bruges

Photograph Rights: Frederik Casteleyn

The making of ‘In Bruges’:

Dijver Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Burg Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Burg Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Dijver Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Groeninghe Museum Bruges

Beguinage/Lake of love Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Market Square Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Market Square Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Rozenhoedkaai Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Rozenhoedkaai Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Gruuthuse Bruges (360° panoramic view)

Photograph Rights: Bruges city film office