ANTWERP TRAVEL GUIDE

Belgium’s pop-culture epicentre with a cosmopolitan edge, Antwerp (Antwerpen in Dutch) is home to 175 nationalities, handles around 80 per cent of the world’s diamond trade and boasts Michelin-starred restaurants, world-class museums and Europe’s second-largest port on the Scheldt River. It is also the birthplace of master painter Peter Paul Rubens and the avant-garde Antwerp Six fashion designers.