Antwerp Zoo
Antwerpen, Koningin Astridplein, 26 
Boys and girls, as well as their parents, merry hippos to see, do not you want to ?! So in a jocular manner Antwerp zoo could invite visitors if it were not already one of the most popular among the ancient and beautiful zoos of the world.
Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Antwerpen, Leopold de Waelpaats 
The collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen), located in a 19th century building, is represented by more than 7,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings covering the period of 14-20 centuries.
The Mayer-Van-Den-Berg Museum
Antwerpen, Lange Gasthuisstraat, 19 
The collection Museum Mayer van den Bergh once belonged to the collector Fritz Mayer van den Berg, who devoted his entire life to art. The museum contains masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a number of works from the 19th century, tapestries, drawings, sculptures and stained glass.
Cathedral of Antwerp Our Lady
Antwerpen, Groenplaats, 21 
Antwerp from ancient times fanatically and reverently venerated the Virgin Mary, she was considered a defender and patroness of the city. The statue of the Virgin was kept in a small chapel in the center of the city, where for 250 years the beautiful cathedral of the Antwerp Our Lady grew.
Antwerp Town Hall
Antwerpen, Grote Markt, 1 
What interests Dutch Renaissance? Regardless of the answer, the Antwerp Town Hall in the central Grote Markt square is exactly the place you should definitely visit, as this is a vivid example of the Netherlands Renaissance, one of the first buildings built according to the classical canons of the era.
Rubens's house
Antwerpen, Wapper, 9-11 
The Rubenshuis House is a former home-studio of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens lived in this house most of his life, and only in 1937 after the death of the artist the house was bought by the city and underwent a large-scale restoration.
House of Literature Letterenhuis
Antwerpen, Minderbroedersstraat, 22 
Since 1933 Letterenhuis has turned into the largest literary archive in Flanders. The exposition of the museum is represented by letters, manuscripts, documents and portraits of Flemish authors.
Stan Castle
Antwerpen, Steenplein, 1 
One of the popular routes for walking around Antwerp starts from the right bank of the Scheldt, namely from the stone castle of Sten, which, without further ado, was called "stone". And all because in the 13th century, when the fortress was being built, the rest of the buildings were mostly made of wood.
Diamond Museum in Antwerp
Antwerpen, Koningin Elisabethlei, 22 
The collection of the museum of diamonds tells about the origin of diamonds and about jewelry with diamonds, dating from the 16th century to the present day. The exposition uses light and sound effects, illustrations.
The Museum of An de Strom
Antwerpen, Hanzestedenplaats, 1 
The Aan de Stroom Museum is located in a 60-meter building designed by the architects of the Dutch company Neutelings Riedijk. The museum building is a curved glass structure, the facade of which is made of Indian red sandstone.
Antwerp Fashion Museum
Antwerpen, Nationalestraat, 28 
The collection of the Fashion Museum (ModeMuseum) contains more than 25 thousand exhibits, including clothes, shoes, accessories, embroidery, lace. The museum presents historical costumes, the oldest of which dates back to the 16th century.
Museum of Planten-Moretus
Antwerpen, Vrijdagmarkt, 22-23 
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is dedicated to two famous publishers Christopher Plantin and Jan Moretus and is located in their former printing house, founded in the 16th century.
Silver Museum in Antwerp
Antwerpen, Hooftvunderlei, 160 
The Museum of Silver (Zilvermuseum Sterckshof) is located in the castle of the Sterckshof (16th century Sterckshof), named after its owner Gerard Sterk. The museum has a wonderful collection of silverware from the 16th century to the present day.
Antwerp Central Railway Station
Antwerpen, Koningin Astridplein 
Located on Astrid Square, not far from the "Diamond Quarter", the modern Antwerp Central Railway Station itself boasts a diamond gallery with 30 jewelry boutiques. Of course, and for its main purpose, it also works.
The city of medieval castles, Gothic cathedrals, museums, legends embodied in stone, diamonds and Belgian fashion are all Antwerp. Here, even the railway station reminds the cathedral outside and a jewelry boutique inside. But most importantly: Antwerp is the city of Rubens!
The fame of Antwerp as an artistic city was undoubtedly born in the 16th century with the advent of the "Antwerp School of Painting", which includes Peter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens and other painters.
You can see with your own eyes canvases that have become diamonds of world art in the numerous museums of Antwerp, whose visit is akin to a spiritual pilgrimage to the sources of beauty.
The spirit of Rubens pervades Antwerp everywhere: in churches, in house names and street histories, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts and the house-museum in his name, at the Planten-Moretus printing plant, but most importantly at the cathedral of the Antwerp Our Lady.
The cathedral is decorated with several paintings by the painter, including the monumental canvases "Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord", "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary", "Descent from the Cross" and "Resurrection of Christ", considered to be the best in his work.
The "best friends of the girl", according to Marilyn Monroe, is undoubtedly in Antwerp, for it is the capital of valuation, trade and diamond cutting. The Antwerp Central Station is located just off the "Diamond Quarter", which was historically designed precisely to facilitate trade for all parties involved.
Antwerp is also a very cheerful city, in the innumerable cafes and pubs music plays here till night. And, of course, for babies and adults working Antwerp Zoo, the only one in Belgium and one of the most famous in Europe, located in close proximity all at the same notorious Central Station.