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Sint-Pieters-Aalst, Gent — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sint-Pieters-Aalst is a former hamlet south of Gent's old walls, near the Sint-Pietersstation.
About Sint-Pieters-Aalst
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The station is the reason to stay here. Sint-Pieters-Aalst lies south of the old town core and outside the former walls, close to the Sint-Pietersstation, which makes it the part of Gent a traveller arrives in and the easiest place to leave from. The Binnenstad is north.
Trams run in from the front.
About Sint-Pieters-Aalst
What are the main landmarks in Sint-Pieters-Aalst?
The wijk was a hamlet before the station came. What stands here now grew up around the railway rather than around a church or a market, and the belfry and the cathedral are a walk north in the old town. The list is the old town's.
What is the history of Sint-Pieters-Aalst?
Aalst was a hamlet outside the walls. Gent's old core ended at the fortifications and Sint-Pieters-Aalst lay beyond them to the south, keeping its own name long after the city grew past it and the railway arrived to fix the place in the map. The Sint-Pietersstation is the marker now.
The name outlived the hamlet.
Where is Sint-Pieters-Aalst?
Sint-Pieters-Aalst lies south of Gent's old core, outside the former walls near the Sint-Pietersstation.
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Updated September 2026