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Antwerp's City Hall, c. 1609–1706 In the 16th century, Antwerp became one of the busiest trading ports and most prosperous cities in Northern Europe.The municipal authorities wished to replace the city's small medieval City Hall with a more imposing structure befitting the prosperity of the great port city.
The Grote Markt (Dutch: [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt] ⓘ; "Big Market") is the central square of Antwerp, Belgium, situated in the heart of the old city quarter.It is surrounded by the city's Renaissance Town Hall, as well as numerous guildhalls with elaborate façades, the majority of which are reconstructions from the 19th and early 20th century, approximating paintings of the square by ...
The Palace of Justice of Antwerp (Dutch: Justitiepaleis Antwerpen) commonly known as the Antwerp Law Courts (Dutch: Gerechtsgebouw Antwerpen), De Frietzakken, [5] [6] and the Butterfly Palace (Dutch: Vlinderpaleis), is a law court building located in the Belgium city of Antwerp on the site of the former Antwerp-South railway station.
Antwerp (/ ˈ æ n t w ɜːr p / ⓘ; Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)] ⓘ; French: Anvers ⓘ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 km 2 (78.96 sq mi) after Tournai and Couvin.
1997 (when the stock exchange merged into Brussels Stock Exchange, presently Euronext) The bourse at Antwerp is a building in Antwerp, Belgium, which was first opened in 1531 as the world's first purpose-built commodity exchange. [1] The Royal Exchange in London was modelled on the Antwerp bourse. [2] The bourse has been described as "the ...
1576 – 4 November: during the Sack of Antwerp, John III van de Werve, Lord of Hovorst gets killed by the Spanish forces. [ 12] 1577 – Antwerp Citadel partially dismantled. 1579. City joins Union of Utrecht. Hall of the Coopers built. [ 12] 1583 – 17 January: François, Duke of Anjou tries to take city. 1584 – July: Siege of Antwerp begins.
Zuid, Antwerp. The Zuid (Dutch for "South") is a southern neighborhood in the city center of Antwerp, abutting the Scheldt River. The Zuid had a revival in the mid- 1980s and is now composed of buildings in the Art Nouveau and Modern architecture styles. [1][2] Zuid contains numerous cafés, restaurants and shops, as well as three museums, two ...
Zurenborg. De Zonnebloem ("The Sunflower"; 1900) by architect Jules Hofman characteristically incorporates the "organic" nature so prevalent in Art Nouveau design both in theme and concept. Zurenborg is an area in south-east Antwerp largely developed between 1894 and 1906 that features a high concentration of townhouses in Art Nouveau and other ...