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Rabot, Gent — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Rabot takes its name from the towered sluice on the Lieve, north of Gent's centre in the belt the textile mills built.
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Where to stay in Rabot
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Rabot sits close in behind the Gravensteen, and Rabotstraat runs the whole way from Burgstraat to the sluice itself. Hotel counters are inside the centre rather than out here, so the usual arrangement is a room in the Binnenstad and a walk out along Begijnhoflaan or Wondelgemstraat to the Griendeplein. The Torekens are the marker.
Gebroeders de Smetstraat carries the campus end of the district.
Things to do in and around Gent
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Museums & Galleries
3- Saint Peter's Abbey Heritage
- Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
- Huis van Alijn
Churches & Religious Sites
8- St Bavo's Cathedral Heritage
- Saint Nicholas' Church Heritage
- Saint Michael's Church, Ghent Heritage
- Sint-Jacobskerk Heritage
- Our-Lady Ter Hooyen Heritage
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- Sint-Annakerk Heritage
- St. Stefanus, Ghent Heritage
- Caermers monastry Heritage
Stadiums & Sports
2- Flanders Sports Arena
- Vlaams Wielercentrum Eddy Merckx
Landmarks & Notable Places
3- Tolhuisje Heritage
- Toreken Heritage
- De Gekroonde Hoofden Heritage
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About Rabot
What are the main landmarks in Rabot?
The Rabot itself is a sluice with towers on it, standing where the Lieve leaves the city. Gent's citizens raised the towers in 1488, after the troops of the Emperor Frederick III gave up a siege that had lasted forty days, and the local name for the building has been the Torekens ever since. Sint-Jozefskerk stands on Wondelgemstraat and the Rabotkerk on Begijnhoflaan.
Both are parish churches.
What is the history of Rabot?
The mills made this district and then left it. Textile works filled the streets during the nineteenth-century boom, and NV Loutex ran at the corner of Rabot and Gebroeders de Smetstraat until the site passed to the Technologiecampus Gent of KU Leuven. Three housing towers went up between 1972 and 1974 with 573 flats between them.
All three came down again, the first between 2013 and 2015, the last between 2020 and 2021.
Where is Rabot?
The district lies north of Gent's centre along the Lieve, joined with the streets on the Blaisantvest in the city's own map.
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Updated October 2026