In the warmer months the appeal of Ostend’s beach is self-explanatory. There’s around seven kilometres of irresistible fine sand, more than 100 metres wide in places. Well over half of the beach is edged by a promenade… See more

This handsome 78.5-meter, three-master sailboat is permanently moored in front of Ostend’s city hall, serving as a floating museum and landmark. The Mercator, named after the Flemish cartographer, was built in Scot… See more

Almost all of the Belgian coast is served by a tramline that first opened between Ostend and Nieuwpoort in 1885. The Kusttram is now almost 70 kilometres long and as well as being one of the few interurban tramways s… See more

You’d be forgiven for thinking that this magnificent neo-Gothic church on the namesake square is much older than it actually is. King Leopold II (1835-1909) had ambitious plans for Ostend and had been itching to b… See more