Zuid
Belle Époque district on a razed citadel, with grand boulevards, museums and a park over filled-in docks.
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This guide to the Zuid in Antwerp follows the Sinksenfoor, the Pentecost fair whose roots reach back to a medieval market, and the years it spent on the filled-in southern docks. You'll meet the showmen who grew up on this ground, and the six residents who took the fair to court in twenty twelve. Best heard standing on the grass of the Zuidpark, where the car park used to be.
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