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Westveld, Gent — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Westveld is a residential wijk in Sint-Amandsberg, east of the old village core and inside Gent.
About Westveld
Where to stay in Westveld
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Westveld is housing and little else. It sits centrally in Sint-Amandsberg, east of the old village core, which puts the Dampoort and the road into Gent's centre a short way west and leaves the wijk itself without anything that lets rooms. Sint-Amandsberg is the deelgemeente.
Book nearer the Dampoort.
About Westveld
What are the main landmarks in Westveld?
The old village core is west of here. Westveld was built as a residential wijk on the ground between that core and the edge of the deelgemeente, so what stands in it is houses rather than monuments. Sint-Amandsberg holds what there is.
What is the history of Westveld?
Sint-Amandsberg was its own municipality. It is a deelgemeente of Gent now, and Westveld occupies the middle of its territory rather than the old core, which is why the wijk reads as newer than the streets a few minutes west of it. The city counts it separately.
Gent files both under one name.
Where is Westveld?
Westveld lies centrally in Sint-Amandsberg, a deelgemeente of Gent, east of the old village core.
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Updated September 2026