Once the city’s forum for public meetings and executions, this large square is named for the Friday market (still held). Tempting cafés sit beneath step-gabled facades surveyed by a grand statue of Jacob van Artevelde , Ghent's 14th-century anti-French leader. A block west notice the 15th-century Dulle Griet , a 5m-long red super-cannon whose 660mm bore and 250kg cannon balls made it one of the five biggest siege guns of the entire Middle Ages.
