| 1 | Later, Bruges, Antwerp, Amsterdam, and London took the lead. | |
| 2 | The College of Europe, the main incubator of future servants for the different European Union institutions, is situated here. | |
| 3 | The earliest stock exchanges emerge in Bruges and Italy in the thirteenth century. | |
| 4 | Arnolfini was a member of a merchant family from Lucca living in Bruges. | |
| 5 | I prefer to look forward, but it did remind me of Bruges . |