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The modern city of Antwerp, Belgium

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Medieval Castle Het Steen - Antwerp, Belgium por Batikart.

Antwerp is one of the most important cities in Belgium, located in the heart of Flanders, cosmopolitan city and one of the largest ports in Europe, famous for its Gothic cathedral. Located on the Scheldt River is a city that always seems to be popular, is also the world diamond center.  Antwerp is also the city where the great artist Peter Paul Rubens developed much of his extraordinary work and lived the last years of his life, the artist is the symbol of the city. Antwerp is one of the most significant university cities of Belgium.  Antwerp is a modern and avant-garde, thanks to the merchants who arrived in the sixteenth century by the Scheldt river, turned into a city with the most important trading port which is maintained until today. (more…)

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