Handelsbeurs Antwerpen
Arcaded Gothic-revival trading hall under a glass roof, modelled on a sixteenth-century merchant bourse.
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This guide to the Handelsbeurs in Antwerp starts with a date on a label and asks what, exactly, is as old as it claims. It moves through the city's sixteenth-century Golden Age, when merchants of every nation met under these arcades, and follows the Englishman Thomas Gresham home to London. Two fires and a nineteenth-century architect named Joseph Schadde also turn up. Best heard standing in the middle of the courtyard, under the glass roof.
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