In the same year, the houses at the west side were also reshaped and enlarged into the Monasterium De Wijngaard, a priory of Benedictine nuns.

[1] Already before 1240, a community of pious women settled at the domain 'de Wingarde' (old Dutch for vineyard), in the south of the city.

[2] The beguinage was founded around 1244 by Margaret of Constantinople, after she requested permission to Walter van Marvis, bishop of Tournai, to move over the tomb chapel on the Burg of Bruges to the Wijngaard.

[2] The complex includes a Gothic beguinage church and about thirty white painted houses dating from the late 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

The first beguine house next to the entrance is furnished as a museum and the exhibition includes paintings, 17th- and 18th-century furniture and lacework, among others.