Antwerp Things to Do Tips by MATIM

The town hall Grote Markt / Big Market square-city hall, Brabo & guild houses Review

The town hall from Antwerp on the main square

It's build between 1561 and 1565, burned down in 1576 by rebel spanisch soldiers, rebuild in 1579.
The belgiums build the town hall together with an italian, that's why it has a flemish-italian renaissance style
Designed by Cornelis Floris and others.

Address: Grote Markt 1, 2000 Antwerp.

Brabo fountain at main square Grote Markt / Big Market square-city hall, Brabo & guild houses Review

Antwerp was often written as 'Hantwerpen' even into the seventeenth century.
The legend has it that around the beginning of our calendar, the giant Antigoon called the shots at the bend in the River Scheldt, demanding a heavy toll from each passing shipmaster. Those who refused to pay had a hand chopped off.
An end came to this wicked enterprise when the Roman warrior Silvius Brabo, slew the giant, chopped off its hand and threw it into the River Scheldt. Hence: 'Hantwerpen', 'hand throwing'. The H disappeared, 'Antwerpen' as we call it in Dutch and Belgium stuck.

Along the river Schelde Review

Antwerp Main square.
I love... Grote Markt / Big Market square-city hall, Brabo & guild houses Review

Antwerp Main square.
I love the facades from these house.

When we where here in winter they had build an ice skating rink, you could hire the skates and of you go!

The bridge on the river Schelde Along the river Schelde Review

Onze-Lieve-vrouw kathedraal (... Cathedral (Our Lady's Cathedral) Review

Onze-Lieve-vrouw kathedraal ( our lady's cathedral, Antwerp)

national shipping... Museum: Steen, Het/National Maritime Museum Review

national shipping museum'Steen'.

The Steen (the stone) is the oldest building in Antwerp, it is build in 1200.

In front statue 'Lange Wapper'