Town Hall

Built between 1561 and 1564 in a peculiar Italian-Flemisch renaissance style. Designed by Cornelis Floris and others.

• Grote Markt 1
  2000 Antwerp

Wooden FaÇade

16th century, restored in 1974

• Stoelstraat 11

Jordaens’ House

Home and studio of the painter Jacob Jordaens, 17th century.

• Reyndersstraat 4

City Library

Classicism, 17th century, impressive collection of historical books, for consultation only.

• Hendrik Conscienceplein 4

Prinsenhof (Court of the Prince)

Renaissance garden from the 16th century with a 17th-century façade.

• Prinsstraat 13

Hessenhuis

Renaissance building from the 16th century. Originally it was a warehouse, now it is used as an important exhibition centre.

• Falconrui 53/Hessenplein

Vlaeykensgang

16th-century alleyway, popular spot for listening to carillon concerts.

• Entrance: Oude Koornmarkt 16

House Draecke

Inner courtyard with 15th-16th-17th-century edifices, including patrician house and lookout tower, called pagaddertower.

• Heilige Geeststraat 9

Boerentoren (“Farmers’ Tower”)

This structure, made entirely of metal, which was completed to the very top before a brick was laid, dates from 1930 and was the first skyscraper in continental Europe. In line with a centuries-old Antwerp tradition, there is a statue of Our Lady in the corner of the building on the eighth floor. Currently, the Boerentoren sports a poem written by Tom Lanoye, the city poet. The poem is in fact about the tower declaring its love to the Cathedral tower.

• Eiermarkt

Royal Academy of Fine Arts

Founded in 1663 in a 15th-century Friar Minors monastery

• Mutsaertstraat 21