Description:

Antwerpen is a chief town in Flemish region of Belgium with the population about 500 thousand persons which has settled down on two river banks Scheldes. Its name is meant the by "the thrown hand" and goes back to an ancient legend according to which once давным for a long time the Roman soldier Silvius Brabo has killed a giant which corrected in these earths, cut off to it a hand and has thrown out it in waters of Schelde. Thanks to a long and nice history of Antwerpen, in a city there is a lot of buildings which have kept in itself spirit of the last centuries. Admire the lock "Het Steen" and the Cathedral of the Antwerpen Mother of god, one of the most amazing in Northern Europe; then visit one of the oldest zoos in the world, the present property of Antwerpen. You also should visit exhibitions of the Royal Museum of Fine arts and Museum Plantin Moretus which doors always for you are opened. After you investigate architectural miracles of a city and satisfy the art taste, come to have supper in one of unusual small restaurants in hidden medieval street Vlaeykensgang.

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Transport

In the city there are developed bus and tram networks, besides, here there is an underground.