Historic Cities
Walk Antwerp in 1560
AI rebuilds Antwerpen (Antwerp) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Golden‑age Antwerp, 1560
Antwerp in 1560 is the richest, busiest entrepôt in northern Europe, its Scheldt choked with Portuguese, Baltic and Mediterranean merchantmen and its markets loaded with sugar, cloth and spices. The walk follows the river into the old city, past the new Beurs, Plantin’s printing house and the single lace‑like tower of Our Lady's Cathedral towering over guild houses and workshops.
35 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Antwerp as it stood in 1560 (“Antwerp”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Scheldt Approach
- 2. Het Steen
- 3. Steenplein
- 4. Suikerrui
- ↳ Sugar Kettle House · interior
- 5. The Wapper Quay
- ↳ Portuguese Warehouse · interior
- 6. De Ruien
- 7. Oude Koornmarkt
- ↳ Painter's Workshop · interior
- 8. Vrijdagmarkt
- 9. Plantin's House
- ↳ Printing Press Room · interior
- 10. Meir
- ↳ Merchant Counting House · interior
- 11. Steenstraat
- 12. Hoogstraat
- 13. Vlaeykensgang
- 14. Handschoenmarkt
- ↳ Glovemakers' Workshop · interior
- 15. The Vleeshuis
- ↳ Vleeshuis Great Hall · interior
- 16. Grote Markt
- ↳ Banqueting Hall · interior
- 17. Guild Houses
- ↳ Merchants' Chamber · interior
- 18. De Beurs (Stock Exchange)
- ↳ Exchange Arcade · interior
- 19. Cathedral Forecourt
- 20. Cathedral Façade
- ↳ Cathedral Nave · interior
- 21. English Merchants' House
- ↳ English Merchants' Hall · interior
- 22. St Michael's Abbey Precinct
- ↳ Abbey Refectory · interior