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Sint-Andries, Brugge — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sint-Andries is an outer sub-municipality of Brugge in West Flanders, separate until 1971, with Sint-Baafskerk at its parish core.
About Sint-Andries
Where to stay in Sint-Andries
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Sint-Andries stretches west of the Brugge ring, a spread of parish streets, school grounds and wooded estate land where the city thins out into open Flemish countryside. Kasteel Ruddershove takes no guests. The hotels stay behind the ring, close to Memling in Sint-Jan.
Choose Sint-Andries if you want a quiet base with the Sint-Baafskerk parish, the sports halls of Sportcomplex Koude Keuken, and the Charterhouse Sint-Anna-ter-Woestijne within an easy ride of the medieval core.
About Sint-Andries
What are the main landmarks in Sint-Andries?
Sint-Baafskerk anchors the parish. The Charterhouse Sint-Anna-ter-Woestijne records a monastic house that stood on the open ground outside the Brugge walls, and Kasteel Ruddershove holds the estate grounds that carry its name. Sportcomplex Koude Keuken covers the everyday sporting side.
Memling in Sint-Jan pulls its crowds inside the Brugge ring, well east of these lanes.
What is the history of Sint-Andries?
Sint-Andries was set up as its own commune in 1796, and it governed the fields and hamlets west of the Brugge walls for the better part of two centuries. That ended on 1 January 1971. The merger folded the commune into Brugge, and the parish kept its name.
Older ground survives at the Charterhouse Sint-Anna-ter-Woestijne, a monastic house older than the commune line drawn in 1796.
Where is Sint-Andries?
Sint-Andries covers some 21 square kilometres of flat ground west of Brugge, reaching from the city ring out into the open fields of West Flanders, Belgium.
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Updated September 2026