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Het Steen. Het Steen is a medieval fortress in the old city centre of Antwerp, Belgium, one of Europe's biggest ports. The surviving structure was built between 1200 and 1225 as a gateway to a larger castle of the Dukes of Brabant which was demolished in the 19th century. As the first stone fortification (city wall) of Antwerp, Het Steen is ...
The Grote Markt (Dutch: [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt] ⓘ; "Big Market") is the central square of Antwerp, Belgium, situated in the heart of the old city quarter.It is surrounded by the city's Renaissance Town Hall, as well as numerous guildhalls with elaborate façades, the majority of which are reconstructions from the 19th and early 20th century, approximating paintings of the square by ...
Antwerp (/ ˈ æ n t w ɜːr p / ⓘ; Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)] ⓘ; French: Anvers ⓘ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province , and the third largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 km 2 (78.96 sq mi) after Tournai and Couvin .
Het Steen (literally: 'The Stone'). Antwerp was developed as a fortified city, but very little remains of the 10th century enceinte.Only some remains of the first city wall can be seen near the Vleeshuis museum at the corner of Bloedberg and Burchtgracht, and a replica of a burg (castle) named Steen has been partly rebuilt near the Scheldt-quais during the 19th century.
The Downtown Paris Historic District, in Paris, Kentucky, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was deemed significant as: the largest, richest, most varied and best-preserved concentration of historic architecture in Bourbon County from the period c. 1788 to ...
Belgium United Kingdom. The Siege of Antwerp (Dutch: Beleg van Antwerpen, French: Siège d'Anvers, German: Belagerung von Antwerpen) was an engagement between the German and the Belgian, British and French armies around the fortified city of Antwerp during the First World War. German troops besieged a garrison of Belgian fortress troops, the ...
Rubenshuis. The Rubenshuis (Dutch for 'Rubens House') is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) in Antwerp. Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself. After the renovations, the house and its courtyard garden had the outlook of an Italian palazzo ...
Vleeshuis. Appearance. Coordinates: 51°13′22″N4°23′57″E51.2227°N 4.3992°E. The Vleeshuis by Jozef Linnig, before 1886. Vleeshuis in 2023. Carved oak group representing Saint George fighting the dragon (ca. 1514). The Vleeshuis (Butcher's Hall, or literally Meat House) in Antwerp, Belgium, is a former guildhall.