The Beguinage is a settlement of single K in city limits, in Flanders and the Netherlands, representing an architectural ensemble, consisting of houses with cells and a chapel around the courtyard used as a garden or planted with flowers. Beginni led an almost monastic lifestyle, but have not taken a vow of celibacy and did not sacrifice their property to benefit the community. They were engaged in needlework, orphans, cared for the sick and the elderly.

Currently in the Beguinage house elderly people, students and artists. However, many turned into a Museum complexes, only a few managed to keep the monastic life.

In Bruges Beguinage is one of the main attractions of the city. It is located on the shores of lake Minnewater. After passing over the bridge through the gate with the inscription: “1776”, you get to the paved path, planted with elms, the courtyard of irregular shape, around which are built low houses of Beguines. On the North side stands the Church of SV.Elizabeth, and on the East – adjacent to the chapel of the house of the abbess of the monastery, the simplicity of which represents charity and religious life in Flanders.