Antwerp (Belgium)
Antwerp is a port city on Belgium’s River Scheldt, with history dating to the Middle Ages. It is is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium (Western Europe). It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest municipality in Belgium by area. In its center, the centuries-old Diamond District houses thousands of diamond traders, cutters and polishers. Antwerp’s Flemish Renaissance architecture is typified by the Grote Markt, a central square in the old town. At the 17th-century Rubens House, period rooms display works by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens.