Stadsfeestzaal
Gilded 1908 festival hall under a glass dome, rebuilt after a fire as an elegant shopping arcade.
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This guide to the Stadsfeestzaal on Antwerp's Meir begins before dawn on the twenty-seventh of December, two thousand, in a hall dressed for its annual Christmas gift fair. It reaches back to nineteen-oh-eight and the decades of balls, fairs and graduations that made this room a rite of passage for generations of Antwerpians. Best heard standing in the centre of the hall, beneath the glass dome.
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