Belgium · Flanders · Brugge
Zwankendamme, Brugge — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Zwankendamme is a village of Brugge on the Boudewijnkanaal, with its own parish church, Sint-Leo de Grotekerk, finished in 1938.
About Zwankendamme
Where to stay in Zwankendamme
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Sint-Leo de Grotekerk has no hotel for a neighbour. Anyone sleeping in Zwankendamme is choosing the Boudewijnkanaal and its quiet over the streets of central Brugge, and accepting that supper, museums and late trains all sit somewhere else. Lissewege and Zeebrugge sit on either side. Either name is the practical answer when the village itself has nothing free, and both stand within a few minutes of the same water.
About Zwankendamme
What are the main landmarks in Zwankendamme?
Sint-Leo de Grotekerk, built in 1938 and dedicated to Leo the Great, is the parish church of Zwankendamme and the one building that gives the village a landmark of its own. The other names attached to this corner of Brugge are Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Bezoekingskerk, Sint-Donatuskerk, the Stella Maris Chapel, the Visserskruis, and the Baron de Maere memorial. Most of that list is churches.
What is the history of Zwankendamme?
The name reaches writing in 1357. Six centuries later the parish raised Sint-Leo de Grotekerk, a church of 1938 that takes Leo the Great as its patron. Those two dates carry most of what is written down here, and they place Zwankendamme among the villages of Brugge in West Flanders rather than among the streets of the city.
Where is Zwankendamme?
The Boudewijnkanaal runs past Zwankendamme, which lies north of central Brugge between the villages of Lissewege and Zeebrugge.
Good for
More areas in Brugge
Updated September 2026