Hendrik Conscienceplein
Car-free Baroque square framed by a Jesuit church, an old professors' house and a heritage library.
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This guide to Hendrik Conscienceplein in Antwerp centres on the Jesuit church that fills one side of the square, and on the summer day in seventeen eighteen when a storm rolled over it. It touches on the Jesuit who ran the building site, the sculptor who came after, and the order's own reversals of fortune. Listen standing in the middle of the square, facing the church front.
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