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Gent St Pieters

Introduction

Ghent St. Peters Train Station is the main railway station in Ghent, Belgium, and the third busiest train station in Belgium, carrying 17.65 million passengers per year.

His origin was a small station on the Gent Ostend line in 1881. At that time, Ghent’s main railway station was the southern railway station built in 1837. The Sint-Pieters train station was built on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Ghent in 1913. It was designed by architect Louis Cloquet and completed before the 1912 World's Fair.

The station is built in an eclectic style, with long corridors that divide the length of the building and provide access to a variety of facilities. The tunnel from the entrance hall leads to 12 platforms. This provides a cross-shaped design for the workstation. The second and third class original waiting rooms are now used as buffets and restaurants.

The station was classified in 1995. The station was refurbished in 1996 and completed the renovation of the interior of the West Wing in 1998. In mid-2007, the project entered a new phase to make the station more customer-oriented and the tower at the entrance to the station was refurbished. In 2008, a new glass canopy was placed at the main entrance. In 2010, the murals in the main entrance hall were renovated.

Ghent St. Peters is the city's main station, but it is located on the southern edge of the central area, just a few steps from the city centre.

Frequent trams connect Ghent St. Peters to the city centre, but some trains (including the IC train on the Ostend-Bruges-Gent-Antwerp route) are also called another station in the city, Ghentdan. Pelter.

Ghent (; Dutch: Gent [ɣɛnt] ; French: Gand [ɡɑ̃] ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest municipality in Belgium, after Antwerp and Brussels. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It is a port and university city. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. With 262,219 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,205 km2 (465 sq mi) and has a total population of 560,522 as of 1 January 2018, which ranks it as the fourth most populous in Belgium. The current mayor of Ghent, Mathias De Clercq is from the liberal & democratic party Open VLD. The ten-day-long Ghent Festival (Gentse Feesten in Dutch) is held every year and attended by about 1–1.5 million visitors.