Schipperskwartier
Historic seamen's quarter by the old port, with red-lit windows and a baroque Dominican church.
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This guide to the Schipperskwartier, Antwerp's old seamen's quarter, turns on one April night in nineteen sixty-eight, when the neighbourhood woke to fire at the Dominican church of Saint Paul. It ties the district's centuries-old red-light trade to the faith housed a few steps away, and asks who in these streets would answer when that church was in danger. Stand on the Veemarkt near the church door, with the Calvary's statues beside you.
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