 In Ghent it opens with the OdeGand City festivities that takes place on the second Saturday of September.Some 50 concerts take place in diverse locations throughout the medieval inner city and some 250 international artists perform.Other major Flemish cities hold similar events, all of which form part of the Festival of Flanders (Antwerp with "Laus Polyphoniae"; Bruges with "MAfestival"; Brussels with "KlaraFestival"; Limburg with "Basilica", Mechelen and Brabant with "Novecento" and "Transit").