Vogelmarkt
Sunday street market of flowers, antiques and textiles, once famed for its live bird and pigeon trade.
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This guide to the Vogelmarkt in Antwerp follows the money on one of the city's oldest Sunday markets, from an eighteen eighty-two sketch of a mason with a week's wages in his pocket to the bird dealers who traded here for generations. You'll meet Gorgon Bellekens, who first rode in on a moped at sixteen, and hear about the haggling over a canary cage. Best heard standing among the stalls on a Sunday morning, while the bargaining is in full voice.
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