Trails

Follow one of the ‘Sticking Around’ trails through the city in Dutch or another language (Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, English, French...). For individuals there are audio-trails (5) with an audio-guide or your own Smartphone. Five audio-trails let you see Ghent through the eyes of people who came and ‘stuck around’ – personal and surprising stories! Individuals can also sign up for a guided trail on the last Sunday of the month. For groups there are guided trails (2) – reservation is required. Two guided trails tell the bigger story as you walk through the centre of Ghent.

Faruk en Mehmet met hun collega’s in UCO de Hemptinne, 1966 – collectie Faruk Köse
GUIDED TRAIL

50 years of migration to Ghent

On this historic walk your guide leads you through the most important chapters in Ghent’s migration history. From the first guest workers to the most recent arrivals, in half a century much has changed. About how migration to Ghent began much longer than fifty years ago, and in what circumstances the newcomers stayed here over the past century.

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Sünbül Karakaya in de winkel van haar vader ‘Berbat’, jaren 1980 – collectie Sünbül Karakaya
GUIDED TRAIL

attention: guided walks for individuals

Every last Sunday of the month, individuals can sign up for a ‘Sticking Around’ guided walk (in Dutch). On August 31st, you can talk the walk in English!

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AUDIO-TRAIL

carmen

In the 1960s Carmen, who was Spanish, worked as a live-in maid for 8-year-old Louis’s wealthy family. One day Louis discovered that she wasn’t there anymore. Fifty years later, Louis goes in search of her. He comes upon the track of the mysterious Madame Billault, who ran a sort of employment agency in Ghent for hundreds of Spanish domestic workers.

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celal kubat

After the death of their grandfather the Ghent-born (grand)children of Celal Kubat go in search of their legendary granddad. What led him to Ghent? What did he do when he got here? And how come everyone knows his name? A series of encounters takes them back to the Ghent of the 1960s and 70s.

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giorgio

The Italian ice-cream maker Giorgio knows it for sure: everything that’s delicious and good in Ghent comes from Italy. Giorgio shows us the way through Italian Ghent, from the Mokabon to the Veneziana. Which tales of migration lie behind these Ghent success stories?

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sioen

In the 1980s Ghent’s music scene became internationally famous for — coincidentally or not — groups with an international line-up of musicians. Ghent singer-songwriter Sioen goes on a journey of (re)discovery, taking in the music cafés Damberd, Trefpunt and The Duke, where musicians from Ghana, Algeria and Latin-America wowed audiences in the 1980s. Follow Sioen through the city.

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Echtgenote en zoon van oprichter Erminio Mazzaro achter de bar in de Mokabon, jaren 1960 – collectie Sandra Mazzaro
GUIDED TRAIL

Sticking Around

Your guide introduces you to some notable figures from Ghent’s migration past. Meet ‘the Turkish festival mayor’ of the 1970s, French ‘Marie and her whistle’, ‘old Zangrando’ and many others. They all had their own reasons for sticking around in Ghent. A walk about people, full of poignant stories and piquant anecdotes.

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zohra

The Brugse Poort district of Ghent in the 1970s: a girl called Zohra has grown up among nuns and priests but now the first imams are arriving in the area. Rebellious Zohra tries to find her way between Xmas and Eid, Easter eggs and halawiyat.

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