Antwerp

Antwerp is the capital of the eponymous province in the region of Flanders in Belgium. At a population of just over half a million people (2018), it is the second largest city in Belgium, and it has a major European port. Wikivoyage

Population 529,247 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Belgium

• 100AmbulanceAmbulance
• 100FireFire
• 101PolicePolice
• 102AwelAwel
• 112AnyAll emergencies

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Belgium

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

• Butcher's Hall Museum · 230 m
• Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex Museum · 260 m
• Het Letterenhuis Museum · 430 m
• Snijders & Rockoxhuis Museum · 460 m
• Paleis op de Meir Castle · 680 m
• Het Steen Castle · 290 m
• St. Charles Borromeo Church Church · 360 m
• Sint-Pauluskerk Church · 390 m

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

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1. TomorrowLand

   July

   Music festival late July in the southern town of Boom

   Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Antwerp); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

• Italian 10
• Regional 7
• Sushi 6
• Thai 5
• Steak house 4
• French 4
• Friture 3
• Pizza 3

All 96 places to eat

Somewhere to run

• Park Spoor Noord 1.2 km across 2.1 km
• Zuidpark 670 m across 1.4 km
• Stadspark 490 m across 1.3 km

Getting around

• Groenplaats 260 m
• Steenplein 320 m
• Melkmarkt 330 m
• Keizerstraat 390 m
• Klapdorp 400 m
• Meirbrug 430 m

Train stations: Antwerpen-Centraal 1.6 km, Antwerpen-Zuid 2.6 km, Antwerpen-Linkeroever 2.9 km, Antwerpen-Luchtbal 3.2 km, Antwerpen-Berchem 3.3 km, Zwijndrecht 4.9 km, Antwerpen-Noorderdokken 4.9 km, Mortsel 5.3 km, Hoboken-Polder 5.5 km

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