Antwerpen-Centraal station
Domed neo-Renaissance railway palace of marble and stone, with a soaring iron-and-glass train shed.
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This guide to Antwerpen-Centraal station in Antwerp starts with King Leopold the Second's first look at the finished hall in nineteen-oh-five, and the remark Antwerpers still repeat. It then turns to the people who later wanted the building gone, from a nineteen-thirties mayor with a modernist friend to railway executives in the sixties. Listen standing under the dome, then walk up to the platforms to see the roof.
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