Antwerp City Hall
Renaissance town hall with a stone arcade, tiered central bay and statues, built over Roman-era remains.
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This guide to Antwerp City Hall on the Grote Markt starts below ground, with the city archaeologists who got to dig beneath the cellar floors during the recent renovation. It then climbs back up to the facade of fifteen sixty-five, the Flemish-meets-Italian design whose authorship historians still argue over. Stand facing the stone arcade, where small shops once traded.
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