The Castle of Gerald the Devil

Despite the name and its gloomy appearance, the devil has never resided in this thirteenth-century castle. Throughout the ages it has been used as a residence for knights, an arsenal, a monastery, a school, an episcopal school, and in 1623 it became a place for the mentally ill and a home for male orphans. , Another part of the building was used as a prison or detention center, and the name is relative to a Belgian knight called Gerald the Devil, which is a distinctive historical symbol in the timeline of the city of Ghent.