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This 18th-century City Palace in Ghent, owned by the noble family d'Hane Steenhuyse, is brimming with colorful salons, artistic furniture, lavish wallpaper and titillating murals. There are also paintings, including one by Peter Paul Rubens. The great ones have stayed there in times long persecuted. Alexander I, Tsar of Russia was there in 1814. In 1815 the French King Louis XVIII who was on the run from Napoleon, and that same year there was also William I, the newly crowned King of the Netherlands. The beautiful garden behind the building is always accessible to the public, and is a hidden gem in the city.
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