Stadspark
Triangular romantic-style park on a former fortress lunette, with a pond and an iron suspension bridge.
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This guide to the Stadspark in Antwerp starts with a runner on her lap around the pond and follows the ground beneath her back to the eighteen-sixties, when a fortress earthwork was handed to the landscape architect Eduard Keilig. It moves between soldiers, strollers and the city's newer crowd of runners and children at play, and asks who a park is really built for. Best heard on the path beside the white suspension bridge.
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