Day FOURTEEN
The Antwerp train station is huge, and has been called the 'most beautiful railway station in the world' (Mashable 2014). It has four levels, which we found very confusing when trying to catch our train!
Damn kiwis.
Looking at the building you might find it hard to decide what style it's built in, and you'd be right because the central dome was designed by a different architect than the facade, and the glass and steel train shed was designed by someone different again. Although I imagine this isn't uncommon to have more than one architect work on a civic building, each of the designs are quite different. The entrance hall, where these different styles come together, is truly impressive. My photos don't really do it justice, the size alone feels very impressive when you are looking up at the dome - the four stories don't cover the hall, you can look directly up at the ceiling.
Need more facts? Building was started in 1895 and Antwerpen-Centraal was opened in 1905.
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This is a Sunday food and small goods market we found relatively close to the train station. I didn't take many photos here, but these olives caught my eye.
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As did these flags on the City Hall, which is in the Grote Markt, or Great Market Square. When the wind was blowing it looked like the whole building was about to fly away. Must be noisy for the people working inside!
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We then went down to the river, where there were a couple of very small castles, and did generic touristy gazing off into space type activities for a while
and finished the day with some Delirium :)
with love from Antwerp
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