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Lissewege, Brugge — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lissewege is a village sub-municipality of Brugge in West Flanders, Belgium, gathered around the brick Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Bezoekingskerk.
About Lissewege
Where to stay in Lissewege
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Brugge keeps most of its hotel trade inside the old centre, so a stay in Lissewege means open fields, church bells, and a road that carries on north to the coast at Zeebrugge instead of the city's own streets. Zeebrugge, not the village, carries most of the lodging. The Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Bezoekingskerk is the marker to steer by, and Zwankendamme lies between the village and the coast.
Choose this side if you want fields rather than crowds.
About Lissewege
What are the main landmarks in Lissewege?
Two parish churches anchor the sub-municipality. The Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Bezoekingskerk rises over the village of Lissewege in brick, its blunt tower visible from far across the surrounding fields long before the houses come into view. The Sint-Leo de Grotekerk serves the built-up ground nearer the port at Zeebrugge.
Neither church stands within the old ring of Brugge.
What is the history of Lissewege?
Lissewege governed itself until 1971. On 1 January of that year the municipality was merged into Brugge, and the villages of Zeebrugge and Zwankendamme passed into the same sub-municipality, so that one old parish boundary now accounts for a broad wedge of the city's northern territory. West Flanders lost a commune that day.
The name stayed with the parish and with the sub-municipality that Brugge still administers.
Where is Lissewege?
Lissewege covers some 27 square kilometres of the West Flanders coastal plain in Belgium, running from the edge of Brugge out to the sea at Zeebrugge.
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Updated September 2026