Vrijdagmarkt
Historic square hosting a Friday-morning street auction of second-hand goods since the sixteenth century.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Vrijdagmarkt in Antwerp is about a game of chance that has been played on one square since the sixteenth century: the Friday-morning street auction. You'll meet the auctioneer, the bailiff in his tent and the bidders behind the rope, then go back to a property developer and the second-hand clothes dealers who gave the square its name. Best heard standing near the statue of Saint Catherine at the centre.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Vogelmarkt
Sunday street market of flowers, antiques and textiles, once famed for its live bird and pigeon trade.
Grote Markt
Historic market square ringed by gabled guild houses and a Renaissance town hall with arcaded shops.
Kolveniershof
Seventeenth-century guild banquet hall with a gabled south front, later an art auction room.
Zuid
Belle Époque district on a razed citadel, with grand boulevards, museums and a park over filled-in docks.
Handelsbeurs Antwerpen
Arcaded Gothic-revival trading hall under a glass roof, modelled on a sixteenth-century merchant bourse.
Kloosterstraat
Antiques-and-design shopping street on the grounds of a vanished medieval abbey near the river.