Museum Vleeshuis
Late-Gothic butchers' guildhall of striped brick and sandstone, now a museum of the city's music.
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This guide to the Vleeshuis in Antwerp starts at the striped brick and sandstone wall of the butchers' guild hall, raised in the early fifteen hundreds. It follows a closed circle of hereditary butchering families, the only people allowed to sell fresh meat in the city, and the booming port that grew hungrier than they could feed. You'll meet the outside butchers who took them to court in fifteen fifty-one. Best heard standing close enough to touch the facade.
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