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In 2015 Café Vlissinghe will be 500 years old and a real festive year will be celebrated. Preparations are in full development. Café whose roots go back to 1515, which immediately promotes Café Vlissinghe to the oldest café in Bruges (Source Knack) Legend has it that Rubens paid his pints there with paintings and Emperor Charles impregnated the then café owner. Café Vlissinghe in Bruges is the oldest pub in the city. Accounting and arch stories go back to 1515. The interior of the liquor house is that of 1870, with some older pieces of furniture here and there. Anthony van Dyck's armchair is at the hearth. A large wooden table rests in the middle of the café. On the wall: black and white portraits of men with mustaches and women with beards. Until 1515, there are documents of the pub, which was actually an inn in the past. Horse and carriage then stopped where the garden now lies. “After the war, the Vlissinghe was a brothel for a while,” says Bruno, “but the café mainly has a cultural history. In 1869 the pub was in the hands of Leon De Meulemeester, who gave the Vlissinghe the reputation of an art cabaret for customers from the bourgeoisie and the artist circle. Sculptors, theater companies and later the stars of the first cinema films, all frequented the café, which, under Leon's direction, became a drinking house where new types of beer were introduced. The current interior of the pub is due to him. "Today tourists from Iceland to Japan are going down for it," says Bruno. "If you run the oldest pub in Bruges, you will be in every foreign travel guide. An Indian film crew will come by tonight. There are also TV recordings of this. Aspe. ”
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