Dageraadplaats
Lively café-lined square facing a neo-Gothic brick church in a turn-of-the-century residential quarter.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Dageraadplaats in Antwerp's Zurenborg district follows the architect Ernest Dieltiens and the parish church he was commissioned to build here at the turn of the twentieth century. It begins with the grand first design he drew for this square, and asks what became of it. Along the way you'll meet Saint Norbert's, a neo-Gothic church run as a total work of art. Best heard from the middle of the square, facing the brick church on its east side.
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