I’ve always loved Antwerp ever since we came on a day trip to Ghent and were encouraged to visit the Rubenshuis. We used (hard now to imagine) to drive through the tunnel to have lunch in Antwerp on my birthday, see Rubens’s Descent from the Cross and buy chocolate hands.
I stayed next door to the disused Sint Annagodshuis with its elaborate baroque portal:-
They are reconstructing the nineteenth-century Stock Exchange:-
Sint-Jacobskerk is up a side street beyond:-
Back to Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk:-
And the Cathedral:-
This didn’t leave much time for shopping:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
A very interesting post and super photographs – are you still using the Leica?
Sometimes – the Leica for colour (it has better definition) and the Samsung for black and white. Charles
Glad you are enjoying Antwerp. You may enjoy my slightly less cultural guide to the city see https://johnnyspangles.com/2017/01/17/antwerp-hands-off/
Dear Johnny, Yes, I recognise the comment about its odd emptiness, the consequence, I think, of radical pedestrianisation which may have the effect of stopping people coming into the city centre. Charles