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Things to do in Antwerp
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Sightlore has 36 places to explore in Antwerp, and 14 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Antwerp's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Snijders&Rockox House
The Snijders&Rockox House is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium. It is located in two neighbouring townhouses formerly owned by the artist Frans Snyders and the mayor Nicolaas Rockox.
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Antwerp-Central railway station
Antwerpen-Centraal railway station is the main railway station in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is one of the four Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network.
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Antwerp City Hall
The City Hall of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of that city's Grote Markt (main square).
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Brabo Fountain
The Brabo Fountain is an eclectic-style fountain-sculpture located in the Grote Markt (main square) of Antwerp, Belgium, in front of the City Hall.
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Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal
The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's seat of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been fully completed.
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Vleeshuis
The Vleeshuis (Butcher's Hall, or literally Meat House) in Antwerp, Belgium, is a former guildhall. It is now a museum located between the Drie Hespenstraat, the Repenstraat and the Vleeshouwersstraat.
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St. Paul's Church
St. Paul's Church is a Roman Catholic church located at the Veemarkt in Antwerp, Belgium. Its exterior is mainly Gothic with a Baroque tower while the interior is characterised by its rich Baroque decoration.
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Rubenshuis
The Rubenshuis (Dutch for 'Rubens House') is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself.
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Museum aan de Stroom
The Museum aan de Stroom is a museum located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp.
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Carolus Borromeuskerk
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Roman Catholic church in central Antwerp, Belgium, located on the Hendrik Conscienceplein.
Discovery routes in Antwerp
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Antwerp: from Rubens to the MAS
From Central Station to the Rubens House, St. James' Church and the Rockox House, then St. Charles Borromeo Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady, the Grote Markt, the Brabo Fountain and the City Hall, the Vleeshuis, Het Steen, St. Paul's Church, the MAS and the Red Star Line Museum.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Antwerp-Central railway station
Antwerpen-Centraal railway station is the main railway station in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is one of the four Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network.
Grote Markt
The Grote Markt is the central square of Antwerp, Belgium, situated in the heart of the old city quarter.
Antwerp City Hall
The City Hall of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of that city's Grote Markt (main square).
Het Steen
Het Steen is a medieval fortress in the old city centre of Antwerp, Belgium, one of Europe's biggest ports.
National redoubt of Belgium
The National Redoubt refers to a 95 km (59 mi)-long ring of forts around the major port city of Antwerp, Belgium built between 1859 and 1914. By 1914, it consisted of 28 forts arranged in two rings around the city.
Bourlaschouwburg
Bourla Theatre (also known as Bourlaschouwburg) is a theatre located in Antwerp that seats around 900. The building is designed in a neoclassical style on the site of the former Tapissierspand tapestry market.
De Roma
De Roma, originally Kinema Roma, is an Art Deco cultural centre and performance venue in Borgerhout, Antwerp (Belgium).
Havenhuis
The Port Authority Building, or the Port House, is a government building located in Antwerp, Belgium, built between 2009 and 2016. It is located in the area of Eilandje, in the Port of Antwerp, and acts as the new headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority, housing various…
Fort Lillo
Fort Lillo is a former military fort built as part of the Antwerp Defence Line on the right bank of the Schelde, and completely surrounded by the industrial port of Antwerp.
Schoonselhof
Schoonselhof Cemetery (Antwerpen Schoonselhof) is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. Schoonselhof Cemetery has an Islamic and Jewish section.
Sint-Annatunnel
Pedestrian and cycle tunnel under the Scheldt in central Antwerp, 572 metres long, opened in 1933.
Museums
Rubenshuis
The Rubenshuis (Dutch for 'Rubens House') is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself.
Snijders&Rockox House
The Snijders&Rockox House is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium. It is located in two neighbouring townhouses formerly owned by the artist Frans Snyders and the mayor Nicolaas Rockox.
Vleeshuis
The Vleeshuis (Butcher's Hall, or literally Meat House) in Antwerp, Belgium, is a former guildhall. It is now a museum located between the Drie Hespenstraat, the Repenstraat and the Vleeshouwersstraat.
Museum aan de Stroom
The Museum aan de Stroom is a museum located along the river Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp.
Red Star Line Museum
Museum opened in 2013 in the former warehouses of the Red Star Line shipping company in Antwerp, telling the story of European migration to America.
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum
The Flemish Tram and Bus Museum is a museum of public transport that exhibits historical trams and buses.
FOMU Photo Museum Antwerp
Fotomuseum Antwerp, also known as FOMU, is a museum of photography in Antwerp, Belgium.
M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp is the contemporary art museum of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. Its current director is Bart de Baere.
Maagdenhuismuseum
The Maagdenhuis Museum (Maidens' House Museum) is an art museum and historical museum located in a 17th-century historic building on Lange Gasthuisstraat, Antwerp, Belgium.
Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Museum Mayer van den Bergh is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, the collection of which is based on the vast collection of the art dealer and collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh.
Middelheim Museum
Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum (Dutch Beeldentuin Middelheim Museum) is a sculpture park of 24 hectares in the park part of the Middelheim Nachtegalen Park at Antwerp.
MoMu - Fashion Museum Antwerp
MoMu (Mode Museum) is the fashion museum of the City of Antwerp, Belgium and collects, conserves, studies and exhibits the largest collection of historical and contemporary designer fashion in Belgium, and holds the largest collection of Belgian fashion in the world.
Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin–Moretus Museum is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium which showcases the history of printing in Antwerp and the prominent role played in that history by the family of printers founded by Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century.
Zilvermuseum Sterckshof
The Sterckshof silver museum of the province of Antwerp was a museum located in Sterckshof castle in Deurne, Province of Antwerp, Belgium, from 1994 to 2014. It then merged with the Antwerp Diamond Museum to form DIVA Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver, based in…
Places of worship
St. James' Church, Antwerp
St. James' Church is a former collegiate church in Antwerp, Belgium.
Carolus Borromeuskerk
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Roman Catholic church in central Antwerp, Belgium, located on the Hendrik Conscienceplein.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal
The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Today's seat of the Diocese of Antwerp started in 1352 and, although the first stage of construction was ended in 1521, has never been fully completed.
St. Paul's Church
St. Paul's Church is a Roman Catholic church located at the Veemarkt in Antwerp, Belgium. Its exterior is mainly Gothic with a Baroque tower while the interior is characterised by its rich Baroque decoration.
St. Andrew's Church, Antwerp
St. Andrew's Church is a Catholic church in Antwerp built in the 16th century. Its exterior is mainly characterised by a late-Gothic style while its interior is decorated predominantly in the Baroque style.
St. Michael's Abbey
St Michael's Abbey in Antwerp was a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1124 by Norbert of Xanten and laid waste during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1807 a semaphore station was installed in the tower of the church.
Monuments
Brabo Fountain
The Brabo Fountain is an eclectic-style fountain-sculpture located in the Grote Markt (main square) of Antwerp, Belgium, in front of the City Hall.
Waterpoort
The Waterpoort (also known as Porta Regia, and Coninckxpoort) is a monumental gate located in the Zuiderdokken, Zuid Antwerp, Belgium.
Nature
Antwerp Zoo
Antwerp Zoo is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located next to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station.
Nachtegalen Park
Nachtegalen Park is a park located in the Antwerp, Belgium municipality of Wilrijk. It served as the archery venue for the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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