Beach
Sint Annastrand
Sandy river beach on the tidal Scheldt, with skyline views, summer barbecues and passing ships.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sint-Annastrand, the river beach on Antwerp's left bank, is about sand and the tidal Scheldt that keeps reclaiming it. It follows the city's long contest with the river, from engineers at the Flemish hydraulics laboratory in the nineteen nineties to the summer of twenty twenty-four, when the beach began thinning faster than anyone expected. Best heard at the waterline, watching the ships go by.
This audio guide was created using AI.