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Antwerp City Hall | The City Hall (Dutch: Stadhuis) of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of Antwerp's Grote Markt (Great Market Square). E rected between 1561 and 1565 to the design of Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists, this Renaissance building incorporates both Flemish an... | ||
Antwerpen-Centraal railway station | Antwerpen-Centraal (Antwerp Central) is the name of the main railway station in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The station is operated by the national railway company NMBS. The original station building was constructed between 1895 and 1905 as a replacement for the original terminus of the Brussels-Me... | ||
Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp | The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic pro... | ||
Fotomuseum Antwerp | Fotomuseum Antwerp is a museum of photography in the city of Antwerp, Belgium. The Fotomuseum in Antwerp has a historical and contemporary collection of photography that is given a new presentation every year. Alongside the collection are frequently changing photography exhibitions, film projections... | ||
Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp | The Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp (Dutch: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, commonly abbreviated as M HKA, previously MuHKA ) is the contemporary art museum of the city of Antwerp, Belgium, and it is one of the most important art museums in Belgium. The museum holds a permanent collection of contempor... | ||
Museum Aan de Stroom | The Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) is a museum located in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium, opened in May 2011. The 60 metre high MAS, was designed by Neutelings Riedijk Architects. The façade is made of Indian red sandstone and curved glass panel construction. The MAS houses 470,000 objects, m... | ||
Rubenshuis | The Rubenshuis (Rubens House) is the former home and studio of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) in Antwerp and now it houses a museum. A year after marrying Isabella Brant in 1609, Rubens began construction on an Italian-style villa on the then-Vaartstraat (now the Wapper, 9-11), at the time located a... | ||
Groenerei Canal | The Groenerei Canal is a tranquil, tree-lined canal in the centre of Bruges, Belgium. On the southern bank of the canal there is also a parallel street called Groenerei (eng. green canal). Over the canal there are several stone bridges, such as Peerdenbrug or Blinde-Ezelbrug Meebrug. The canal is p... | ||
Minnewaterpark | The Minnewaterpark is a park in the south of the center of the Belgian city of Bruges. | ||
Concertgebouw in Bruges | The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in the Belgian city of Bruges. The building was built for "Bruges 2002 European Capital of Culture", though there were already in the 1990 plans for such a project to start in Bruges. Besides a large hall which has 1,290 seats on three levels, there is also the c... |
Belgium - cities with tourist attractions
The oldest constructions
- Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Brussels (1905 - ?, 1935)
- Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History (? - ?, 1923)
- Boerentoren (1929 - 1932, ?)
- Sportpaleis (1932 - 1933, ?)
- Atomium (? - ?, 1953)