PHOTOGRAPHS: CHLOE CHAPMAN, HELENA DOLBY, TOM JOY, ALEX TEUSCHER/ZANNIER HOTELS, PIET DE KERSGIETER, HEIKKI VERDURME, ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
The 50-minute train from Brussels deposits travellers at Ghent’s solid mock-medieval train station, built to receive visitors to the city’s 1913 World Exposition.