# Basilica of the Holy Blood

Bruges, Belgium

A double chapel on the Burg with a sober Romanesque lower level built from 1139 to 1149 and an ornate Gothic upper chapel. It guards a venerated phial said to hold the blood of Christ, honoured each year in the Procession of the Holy Blood.

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Coordinates: 51.20817, 3.22672

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