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Destinations â¢ Europe â¢ Belgium â¢ Brugge. Remarkably well-preserved and wonderfully beautiful, Brugge is the top tourist destination in Belgium for good reason. Found in the northwest part of Belgium, Brugge is home to around 120,000 people, and it is both the capital and largest city of the West Flanders province.
The place is first mentioned in records as Bruggas, Brvggas, Brvccia in 840â875, then as Bruciam, Bruociam (in 892), Brutgis uico (toward end of the 9th century), in portu Bruggensi (c. 1010), Bruggis (1012), Bricge (1037, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle), Brugensis (1046), Brycge (1049â1052, again in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle), Brugias (1072), Bruges ...