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Antwerp Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Tue, 23 May 2017 18:14:14 +0000

A SINGLE TOWN No country of Europe, and probably no country in the world, has such a high rate of urbanisation. Now here has the distance between town and country been so greatly reduced. Indeed, you pass from one to the other without leaving the built-up area. There is no vacuum between the towns, but a solution of continuity in the form of a street fringed with houses, a road running through fields with crops, always linking them up. Unspoiled nature shrinks visibly. Belgium, with its 30,500 sq. kilometres, each of which has an average of 318 inhabitants, is much

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TRAVEL TO ANTWERP

editor — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:10:00 +0000

The settlement established in 726 AD joined Brabant at the end of the 11th century, and in 1291 had the freedom of the city. In 1315 Antwerp became a member of the Hanseatic league. The port, the sea voyages and its position at the crossroads of the trade routes between West Europe and the Eastern countries and from England to Central Europe made Antwerp the richest city in Europe in the 16th century. The buildings of the Golden Century count today as some of the most important sights. However, a decline was to follow brought on by Spanish repression, fire

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