exploring the city

charming neighbourhoods

Factors such as the port, the diamond business, the fashion industry, urban planning interventions and the rich cultural heritage of the Golden Age and other major periods of prosperity today determine the appearance of our city. However, Antwerp is a metropolis and as a result, several districts were able to develop their own individual style. Let yourself be surprised by the striking difference between our distinctive charming neighbourhoods. Popular or elegant, hip and charming, centuries-old or brand-new? You’ll find it all here!

 

 

!!! A RESERVATION HAS TO BE MADE ULTIMATELY 3 WEEKS IN ADVANCE !!!

THE REVALUED CITY (3 hours by coach with stops)
a major round of urban renewal
For ten years Antwerp was known as ‘the Construction Site of the Century’. The slew of ambitious urban renewal projects has not yet stopped. The city is rightly proud of a range of achievements that have also put it on the map as a modern metropolis where it is a pleasure to live, shop and work.
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THE TRENDY ZUID DISTRICT (3 hours with a stop for refreshments)
elegant, artistic and always surprising
At the end of the nineteenth century the town council developed a new neighbourhood just south of the old city centre. The town council commissioned a Belle Epoque neighbourhood with docks as well as elegant streets and broad boulevards lined with major public buildings. After a difficult period this district is now experiencing a second youth, and with its trendy image the Zuid district is now - even internationally - known as one of the hot spots in the lifestyle and fashion city of Antwerp.
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ZURENBORG (3 hours with a stop for refreshments)
enjoying the Belle Epoque
On the eastern edge of the core city you will find the Zurenborg district, without a doubt one of the nicest and most pleasant neighbourhoods of Antwerp. It exuberantly shows off its Belle Epoque grandeur and charms visitors with its quiet, elegant streets and lively squares. The icing on the cake is of course the famous Cogels-Osylei, a superb showcase of civil architecture on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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> Prefer something shorter? There is an alternative to the above walk:

COGELS-OSYLEI (2 hours)
Zurenborg’s Meir
Cogels-Osylei and its side streets are like an architectural sample of the Belle Epoque in our city. Take a walk past stately homes and which include some the most beautiful town palaces of the Antwerp bourgeoisie.
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Contact

• Antwerpen Toerisme & Congres
  Grote Markt 13 - 15
  Tel: +32 (0)3 232 01 03
  Fax +32 (0)3 203 95 08
  visit@stad.antwerpen.be

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