Antwerp is a city of art, brimming with antiques markets, museums, galleries, art studios, and salons. It was here that Antoine van Dyck, Adriaen Brouwer, Rubens, Quentin Matsesa, and Pieter Bruegel were born. Antwerp is also Europe’s second-largest port and the world’s “most diamond-rich” city.

Antwerp is the second-largest city in Belgium and a major tourist destination in Flanders. It boasts a beautiful historic center. At the same time, modern Antwerp has become renowned as a center of fashion and design, frequently visited by artists, writers, intellectuals, and actors.

Antwerp Attractions and Attractions
The city’s main attractions include the Mayer van den Bergh Museum, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, the Rubens House, the Brabo Fountain (19th century), the Plantin Moretus Museum, the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe Cathedral, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Fashion Academy, and the Antwerp Zoo.

Steen Castle, one of the first stone buildings built in 1200, has historically served as both an archaeological museum and a prison. Today, it houses the National Maritime Museum. Other popular tourist attractions include the Rockox House, the central Grote Markt, the pedestrian Hoogstraat, and the Scheldt Embankment and South Terrace.

Near Antwerp, the Middelheim Park is an open-air museum featuring landscape compositions and a large exhibition of contemporary sculptures on a giant lawn. The ancient Fort VII has been transformed into a nature reserve, home to a wide variety of local flora and fauna.