Ironically, a book, Bruges la Morte (1892) by Georges Rodenbach, helped it turn the page. Readers rediscovered its heritage and tourism began. Plus, a new international seaport, Zeebrugge, was built.

On the left, Belgium is depicted with Bruges' fairy tale charm, with red kestrels, blooming poppies, Smurfs at the Atomium, Tintin in the Grand Place, and EU landmarks.

Kinology has boarded 'Trompe-la-Mort,' a WWI thriller set during the early days of the Battle of Verdun, starring Sami Bouajila and Finnegan Oldfield.

The first of Source/Irish Times photography and literature films, exploring Bruges-la-Morte, can be viewed at irishtimes.com and source.ie, with additional titles added weekly through August and ...

Chicago City Opera will present the Chicago premiere of composer Erich Korngold’s masterpiece, the psychological thriller “Die Tote Stadt.” “Based on the symbolist novel ‘Bruges-la-Morte,’ this moody, ...

West Flanders' oldest masonic lodge La Flandre in Bruges has taken the unprecedented step of showing the general public where its members meet. Explanation was also provided about what happens at the ...

Now, 105 years after its premiere, we are finally bringing this masterpiece to Chicago audiences. This production offers world class singers in Rosehill Cemetery’s May Chapel, which was built in the ...

Want to explore a different side of Europe? From Cologne’s Carnival to Innsbruck’s pistes, this train route goes deeper.

Based on Georges Rodenbach’s 1892 novel Bruges-la-morte, Korngold’s score sets a libretto by his father, the critic Julius Korngold (who was writing under the pseudonym Paul Schrott). Its plot follows ...

For a time after its 1920 premiere, Erich Korngold’s opera “Die tote Stadt” (”The Dead City”) was one of the most popular operas in the German-speaking world. Then, like most other ...

Protesters and police clash after a boy is found dead at his school dormitory.