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Beautiful Antwerp Central Station
Koningin Astridplein is a square in the center of the Belgian city of Antwerp. It leads to the De Keyserlei and the Carnotstraat among others. Right at the square, there is the beautiful Antwerp Central Station which many travellers and locals use to get to different cities and different areas of the city itself.
The Central station has a beautiful architecture and was built in 1905. This central station is one of the most beautiful central stations in the world, given its beautiful architecture and grandeur.
Just right beside it, you will find a popular destination which is the diamond street (De Keyserlei). There are also a lot of popular destinations around it.
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Belgian Waffle House in Antwerp
Address - Van Hecke Waffle House in Antwerp
Ambiance/Facilities - waffles were not too bad! The waffles were crispy and warm, but super light on the inside. Ambience wise, it was a small Waffle House but had enough seats to accommodate everyone. The owner was also very friendly and helped us move to a bigger table when it was available.
Highlights - We got a banana split and it was amazing! we also got a normal waffle with the whipped cream, it was nice on its own as well!
Avg. Price per Person - 10-15 euros depending on what you get. They have Belgian waffles and even main dishes. They also serve tea, hot chocolate, and many other drinks along with ice cream to go with your waffles.
Rating - 4.5/5
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Must-go Brewery Tour in Antwerp!
Getting There - very near the city centre, just a short tram ride away to reach this brewery from Antwerpen city centre.
The brewery tour is a must go when you visit Antwerp! upon getting tickets, you get to enter the tour, it is a very interactive tour and you don’t need a tour guide. You may also enter anytime within the opening hours of the attraction. They also provide you with 2 free beers (one at the entrance and one near the end of the tour).
The brewery tour was very informative and fun, and a lot of effort was put into making the tour. we learnt about the different beers and some of the history of the famous beers in Antwerp and Belgium. #bucketlistreboot #tripblazers #antwerp #antwerpen #beer
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Middelheimmuseum
This is a detail from Congoville, a free temporary exhibition at the open air museum Middelheimpark. Scroll to see further details.
In the exhibition,15 artists who were selected by the Belgian-Congolese art historian Sandrine Colard, show their vision on Congoville and the colonial traces in our society.
Special focus lies on the former Colonial College of Belgium whose building next to the Middelheimpark is now owned by University Antwerp. Foundet in 1920 and closed in 1962, it trained top civil servants to run the Belgian colonies. The garden also contains the director's villa in colonial style.
This photo shows the work of artist Maurice Mbikayi and is called ‘The Aesthetic Observer (2021) ‘.
Maurice Mbikayic, born in 1974 in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), lives and works in Cape Town (South Africa).
In the clothing of this figure we see keys from old computer keyboards. It refers to the raw materials needed in today's technology. The workers who extract the ores from the ground in Congo are still exploited thus enabling the Western way of life. Afterwards, the West often dumps the materials back in Africa as toxic waste.
By using this dumped materials in his art, Mbikayi denounces this reprehensible situation. At the same time it honorees the resilience of the African people, who have found endless ways to make the most of limited resources.
The dandy-like character of the figure refers to the Sapeurs from Brazzaville-Congo who are members of ‘La Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes’ which means that they belong to ‘the elite of élégance’.
They parade across the street like peacocks in striking clothing and create flamboyant identities for themselves showing they haven’t lost their free spirit and self respect.
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Sint, Jansplein
In Antwerp you will find many references to the artist Panamarenko, a pseudonym for Henri Van Herwegen (1940-2019). He lived and worked most of his life in Antwerp, where he also completed his education at the Antwerp Academy. He is considered one of the most important Belgian sculptors of the second half of the 20th century, who even held exhibitions in London, Basel and New York.
Influenced by his grandfather an architect and his father an electrical engineer, he developed a fascination for technology and spatial constructions. Especially flying in the broadest sense of the word intrigued him.
He designed scale models of numerous imaginary vehicles, airplanes, balloons or helicopters in all possible original and surprising shapes. They are all variations on the dream of flying as in the myth of Icarus. Whether these craft can actually fly is part of the mystery and appeal.
His pseudonym Panamarenko is also the contraction of "Pan American Airlines and Company".
In a new district of Antwerp on the south which is still in full development, they named a square after him as a tribute.
On that square is one of his art works, the Bing II ; a bronze flying saucer with a diameter of 3.5 m.
On St. Jansplein you’ll find the artwork, Pepto Bismo, a bronze statue of a man with propellers on his back.
At the same Sint Jansplein the artist Werner Mannaers covered an entire pavilion with mosaic as a tribute to Panamarenko.
The former home and workshop of Panamarenko in Biekorfstraat with completely intact furniture was sold to the museum Muhka and can be visited.
It is a remarkable building with a helicopter platform on top of the roof. In the opposite of it on the facade of a newspaper vendor you find a huge mural by graffiti artist Yvon Tordoir (Aerosol Kings), who was inspired by Panamarenko's futuristic spacecraft.
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Antwerpen-Centraal
The Central Station immediately has a wow factor for those arriving by train in Antwerp.
The impressive building was built between 1899 and 1905 according to a design by the architects Louis Delacenserie and Charles Poupaert in an eclectic style. It is in fact already the third station on this spot after the previous two were demolished.
Originally it was a terminus where all trains had to turn in their direction of travel.
This changed in March 2007 after a thorough renovation and modernization of the station platform, in which a two-track tunnel was opened that runs under the station and part of the city so that trains can continue their route without turning.
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Antwerpen Meir Shoppingstreet
While shopping on Meir Street you will pass a sculpture of a super-sized hand. Many take pictures there and it is also an ideal climbing wall for young (and sometimes slightly older) children.
You will find 'hands' all over Antwerp. It is the symbol for the city as it refers to Antwerp’s legend of origin with the giant Druon Antigoon who cut off hands of passing skippers on the Scheldt who refused to pay tolls until the giant was killed by the Roman Silvius Brabo.
As a revenge Brabo cut off Antigoon's hand and threw it in the Scheldt. After this the Scheldt became toll-free.
There are cookies called ‘Antwerpse Handjes’ which exist since 1934, next to the harbor house you will find a huge severed hand by artist Bruno Kristo and on the outer walls of Mas museum you can even spot 3000 aluminium hands. On Grote Markt you have the epic fountain with the sculpture of the Roman Brabo throwing away the hand of the giant Antigoon and this theme is repeated again on a smaller scale if you have an eye for it. Look for example at the figure on top of the Quinten Matsijs well on Handschoenmarkt.
This sculpture is by the artist Henri de Miller, born in France in 1953. He is not only a sculptor, he also designs gardens and parks. The original sculpture was made in 1986 and includes a head in addition to the hand. It is entitled l'Ecoute which means listening and stands next to the Saint-Eustache church in Paris, close to the Forum des Halles. The title of the work refers to the underground, the head listens to the sounds of the metro.
Antwerp bought the work in 1991 but placed only the hand on Meir in 1992 despite the artist's protest.
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Stroomplein - Tavernierkaai
Stroomplein - Tavernierkaai 11-
An urban meeting point, a stage for young noise, full of soul, a stand for revelation and sensation.
Stroomplein is open from 4 pm every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, occasionally on Sunday.
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Saint Paul's Church
Saint Paul's Church is a beacon in the old skippers quarter of Antwerp. A big surprise awaits you.
The church was part of a grand monastery complex of the Dominicans. They settled in Antwerp as early as the 1240s to proclaim the ‘true faith’. The church itself dates from 1571 and has been through a lot since then. In 1796 the French occupier closed the monastery and classified the church as a parish church. Fortunately, her belongings were spared. In 1968 she fell prey to a large fire from which she is fully recovered in the meanwhile.
The church is a feast for the eyes with the beautiful baroque altars, the sublime furniture, the important organ, the more than 200 statues and 50 paintings, among which works by Jordaens, Rubens, Teniers, Van Balen, Van Dyck…
The calvary garden, which you only get to see after you have passed the porch of the church, looks like a fragment from an epic film about Christ's suffering and resurrection.
St. Paul's Church is a Gothic building (late Middle Ages), but its furniture and works of art date mainly from the Baroque 17th century, as does the remarkable crowning of the 'lantern tower'. The portal also breathes Baroque. The depth effect in the church is remarkable, partly because of the very long choir. Light and space play their virtuoso game here, in a wonderful harmony of strict Gothic and dynamic Baroque.
An additional surprise is the treasury chamber with art pieces from 8 centuries!
If you enter the backyard of the church via St. Paulusstraat, you can relax between the greenery at a beautiful contemplative Maria cave.
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Antwerpen-Centraal
This statue by Louis Dupuis, represents Jacob van Artevelde (1290-1345) and is placed above the portal of a neo-Flemish Renaissance bourgeois house in 62, Van Arteveldestraat. Both, statue and house, date from 1881. The design of the house is by architect Albert Delrue.
Jacob Van Artevelde, nicknamed The Wise Man, was a Flemish leader and statesman. As a cloth merchant, broker and owner of extensive properties, Van Artevelde belonged to the wealthy bourgeoisie in Ghent.
When during the Hundred Year’s war (1337-1453), France forbade his occupied territories to trade with the English , Van Artevelde went against these orders and resumed the wool trade with England. For that reason he is seen in Ghent as a folk hero.
The reason why we find this in Antwerp has everything to do with the commissioner of the house, Joseph Hubert Kockx, who was a wealthy 19th century’s trader in ready-to-wear clothes from Schippersstraat.
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