Zurenborg
Belle Époque residential quarter of Art Nouveau mansions, turrets, mosaics and wrought-iron façades.
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This guide to Zurenborg in Antwerp follows the people who worked to build and run its showpiece streets around nineteen hundred, starting with Louis Luyckx, an accountant at the company that developed and let most of the houses. It looks at the craft and the economies behind the turrets, mosaics and wrought-iron flowers of Cogels-Osylei, and at the maids who kept those households running. Best heard on Cogels-Osylei near the roundabout, where the white mansions stand.
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