[September 4, 2019] DesignJAAP had made architectonic photos of Belgian town Antwerp. With a population of 520,000 it is the most populous city proper in Belgium, and with a metropolitan area housing around 1,200,000 people, it’s the second largest metropolitan region after Brussels in Belgium.

Grote Markt (Great Market Square) in Antwerp

Antwerp is on the River Scheldt, linked to the North Sea by the river’s Westerschelde estuary. Both economically and culturally, Antwerp is and has long been an important city in the Low Countries, especially before and during the Spanish Fury (1576) and throughout and after the subsequent Dutch Revolt. Antwerp was also the place of the world’s oldest stock exchange building, originally built in 1531 and re-built in 1872.

Here is an architectonic impression of the town of Antwerp