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Located under the intersection of the Sint-Elisabethstraat with the Greinstraat and the Delinstraat, it is served by lines 2, 3, 5 and 6. Elisabeth premetro station has only one entrance that leads to level -1. The ticket hall is on level -1, while on level -2 are both platforms, each 60 meters, in front of each other.
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 ...
St. Ignatius University Centre, Antwerp (UCSIA) is an independent continuation of the Jesuit effort to keep the Christian influence alive on to education after its predecessor the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA) joined two other universities to become the public University of Antwerp in 2003.
St. Paul's Church (Dutch: Sint-Pauluskerk) 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.
The first Christian missionaries arrived in the 7th century. The first parish church dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was constructed in the current Sint Michielsstraat. After the Viking raids in 836, the church was damaged and restored, and subsequently dedicated to Saint Michael.
Het Steen, Antwerp, Belgium The castle from the Scheldt river 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.
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. [1]
The Waterpoort was erected in 1624, [3] [4] [2] and originally served as a water gate on the Scheldt river, functioning as a passage to the river from the fortified wall that protected the city of Antwerp, [3] through which boats could get to the Vlasmarkt from the Scheldt side. [4]