"A 2 star Hotel with a exellent service "

Hotel Cordoeanier wishes you welcome

Hotel Cordoeanier is situated in a quiet street just off the market square, in the heart of the midiaevel city "Brugge" also called "Bruges" or "Venice of the north". Brugge is a midiaevel city well preserved with lots of nice sights, boattrips on the canals.

This Family hotel has 22 rooms, all the rooms have shower and toilet TV and telephone, there are also 2 luxury rooms on the ground-floor with shower, bath, toilet TV and telephone.

Kris Veireman wishes you a hearty welcome in his family hotel.

In the morning there is a nice buffet breakfast, then you can explore the city with its rich culture, magnificent musea and lots of cosy restaurants, bars en typical pubs where you taste a nice Belgian beer or one of the local specialities. In the hotel there are lots of facilities, internet, Wi-Fi, bicycles hire, cyclingmaps, laundry-service, bar, reading corner, informationmap in the rooms and there are also coffee and tea making facilities.

A bit of history:
Luc de Vliegher wrote in his book "houses of Bruges", this house, broader than it is deep, has 2 storeys and is seven bays wide. This large house was formed by the fusion of three old ones, traces of which have servived in the cellars. Its simple plastered, corniched facade means the building can be dated, stylistically, to the first quarter of the 19th century.

François Goudeseune (1749-1815)ballonnist en salesman, and his wife Jeanne-Françoise Lambert lived here. He used one of the houses as a warehouse and coach-house.
The invention of the hot-air balloon by the Montgolfier brothers, who first sent up an unmanned balloon on the 4th June 1783, prompted various enlightened minds in Flanders to experiment too. Together with the young lawyer Jacques Devaux, François Goudeseune who lived at 16-18 Cordoeaniersstraat, was the first person in Bruges to send op balloons in Flanders.

From June 1875 to May 1786 he regularly caused uproar in the city with hid balloon experiments, which were attended by huge crowds.

They were sometimes annouced by means of handouts and drew countless curious spectators. They usually took place in the garden of the Guild of St Sebastian at 174 Carmersstraat and admission was often free. If the performance went wrong as a result of the balloon tearing or catching fire, the people of Bruges were full of spite and ridicule. Goudeseune becaume the target for mocking songs. Nevertheless he regularly succeeded in sending up large, colourfull and finely decorated balloons to traverse the sky above the city. A National decree issued in Bruges on the 16th June 1786 brought the balloonists experiments to an end.
It seems the business activities of Goudeseune were not very successful, sinces his property was seized by this creditors on several occasions. He was a Bruges revolutionary who served as an officier in the patriotic army ande helped the French by working as a spy during the early years of French rule (1794-1814). He was hated by the people because of his harsh treatment of the clergy. He died in 1815.