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2 February 2016
The medieval buildings and courtyard garden were home to the Plantin and Moretus families. Cristoffel Plantin (1520-89) was the bookbinder, leather worker and printer who founded the most important publishing house in Europe, Officina Plantiniana. Jan Moretus married Plantin’s daughter and he and his sons continued the increasingly successful business.
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