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Sint-Kruis, Brugge — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sint-Kruis is a former municipality east of the historic centre of Brugge, merged into the city in 1971, with Male Castle at its eastern edge.
About Sint-Kruis
Where to stay in Sint-Kruis
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The hotel rows stop at the Brugge ring. Male Castle marks the eastern end of Sint-Kruis, and the residential streets running back from it were laid out for the people who live along them rather than for a night's guest. A short ride west opens the Belfry of Bruges, Sint-Salvatorskathedraal and the museum lanes inside the old walls, where nearly every Brugge bed and nearly every queue sits.
About Sint-Kruis
What are the main landmarks in Sint-Kruis?
Male Castle is the district's own landmark. It stands at the eastern edge of Sint-Kruis, far enough out that the streets around it give way to fields. The rest belongs to Brugge.
West of the ring the Belfry of Bruges, the Church of Our Lady and Sint-Salvatorskathedraal carry the skyline, while the Groeningemuseum and Sint-Janshospitaal hold the Flemish Primitives a few streets apart. Gentpoort and the Jerusalem church sit closest, on the old town's eastern side.
What is the history of Sint-Kruis?
Sint-Kruis kept its own council until 1970. The merger came on 1 January 1971, when the municipality was folded into Brugge, and the name survived as a deelgemeente rather than as a town in its own right. Male Castle is the older story.
Its grounds sat outside the city walls, on the road east, long before the streets of Sint-Kruis reached them.
Where is Sint-Kruis?
Sint-Kruis spreads east of the historic centre of Brugge, a West-Vlaanderen deelgemeente whose streets thin into open ground toward Male.
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Updated September 2026