St Paul's Church
Gothic Dominican church with a Baroque interior, rich altarpieces and an outdoor Calvary garden.
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This guide to St Paul's Church in Antwerp begins on a cold night in April 1968, in the old sailors' quarter that is now the city's red-light district, when the neighbours woke to a noise. It follows the students, bar patrons and sex workers who lived on these streets, and reaches back to an Austrian emperor and French occupiers who had their own designs on the church's paintings. Best heard standing near the altars, facing the copy of Caravaggio's Madonna of the Rosary.
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