Visit Antwerp Part 3; we start at Antwerp Nieuw Zuid, one of the most recent expansions of the city. Turning left onto the Vlaamse Kaai, The Damped South Docks. At the end of the 19th century, three docks were built on this site to expand the harbour activities then concentrated on the Scheldt. Around 1969, the three docks were filled (damped, hence the name) because all harbour activity had moved northwards. It became a big parking place and the site hosted the “Sinksenfoor”, the yearly fair for years to come. It is currently a big construction site, as Antwerp is digging again to build large underground parking facilities, with a big “Central Park” above. The trip continues to The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, a lively neighbourhood with lots of bars and restaurants. Next stop is the federal courthouse, “Het Vlinderpaleis” (Butterfly Palace), with its typical roofline. We then turn around and head back to the Museum of Fine Arts (making a U-turn in the Pacificatiestraat, as it is a dead end street ;-), continuing to the Amerikalei, part of the “Leien” (America, Britain, France and Italy Lei), a big road dividing Antwerp in 2 parts. We end up at the “Mechelsesteenweg”, the road originally leading to Mechelen (that we visited during our Antwerp to Brussels roadtrip here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8cS40rU1RHqQLOYImNu2cLB2PG20Vh_Y
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