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Curious Bruges
Season 4
Episode 407
Who were the Flemish Masters, and how did they leave their mark on art history? Who stole Michelangelo’s Madonna of Bruges? And who rescued her? Why does Bruges look the same as it did in the Middle Ages? What is a Beguinage? And ‘Blind Donkey Alley’? And why are all the colorful buildings surrounding the Markt the same width?
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Viking Museum, Lofoten villages & islands, history of Norway's painted houses & stockfish.
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