Antwerp
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The city and municipality of Antwerp (Dutch is a centre of commerce in Belgium and the capital of Antwerp province, in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions. Antwerp's total population is ca. 461,496 (January 2006). The agglomeration has a population of about 800,000.
Buildings and facilities
- The Antwerp Zoo was founded in 1843, and is home to more than 4,000 animals
- Central Station is a railway station
- Cathedral of Our Lady. This church was begun in the 14th century and finished in 1518.
- The Plantin-Moretus Museum preserves the house of the printer Christoffel Plantijn and his successor Jan Moretus
- The Boerentoren (Farmers' Tower) or KBC Tower, a 26-storey building built in 1932, is the oldest skyscraper in Europe
- The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, on Antwerpen Zuid
See also
- Sack of Antwerp
- Antwerp fashion
- Antwerp shopping
- Antwerp tourism
- Antwerp underground history
- Antwerpen Zuid
- Eilandje
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