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Article: Great moments for Ghent
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1995
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The Castle of the Counts in Ghent seemed a curious place to
take a class of adolescent pupils on a Sunday morning. Up on the
tower they larked about, threatening to throw each other off; and
they gave their teacher a hard time inside the castle's bare
chambers. Things got completely out of hand in the display on the
restoration of the castle, with its cutaway drawing of an
11th-century latrine, showing the correct seating position (side
view, and face on) and what plumbers call the "drop".
The big attraction turned out to be the main exhibition room.
Here, reflecting the period when the castle served as a prison, was
a collection of instruments of torture: an extensive array of
thumbscrews ...