Moere

Moere is a small village located within the municipality of

Gistel Gistel () is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Following local government boundary reforms in 1971 and 1977, the municipality has comprised not only Gistel, but also the towns of Moere, Snaaskerke and ...

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. The village gained some fame when American singer

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moved there for several months in the early 1980s. During his stay, the singer composed his hit songs "

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" and "

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." The house he resided in remains an attraction to this day. Another famous inhabitant of the village was Alfons Vanhee, a priest who was a friend of the romantic poet

Guido Gezelle Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect. Life Gezelle was born in Bruges in ...

in the latter half of the 19th century. Vanhee is best known for composing the text ''Het manneke uit de mane'' which is roughly translated as ''The man in the moon''. Populated places in West Flanders Gistel {{WestFlanders-geo-stub