The Florentines building on the street corner wears a facade of decorative stone that mimics the patterns of a woven carpet. Beneath those intricate carvings, the Florentine merchant families of the fourteenth century established their trade hub. They brought Italian banking and luxury goods to this corner of Bruges, effectively turning this specific house into the primary clearinghouse for Mediterranean gold and Flemish wool. One merchant, Lodovico della Faille, eventually used this property to manage a fortune that spanned the entire continent.
The Florentines
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