
Antwerp is a major destination of Belgium in the region of Flanders and it is often claimed to be the largest center of diamond cutting. The city stands side by side with New York and South Africa as a major international center of the diamond industry. Still, Antwerp is the second largest port in EU after Rotterdam. The 500.000 inhabitants call it the 'Metropolis'. This city has so many different facets that it takes a while before one gets to know it thoroughly. Thus, Antwerp is among the most popular tourists’ destinations. Visitors from all over the world are welcomed to hotels and apartments of all types in Antwerp, Belgium. No matter whether you are looking for the budget accommodation in Antwerp, cheap hotels in Antwerp or for luxury, 5-star Antwerp hotel, you can get them all. As usual, accommodation offers in Antwerp come with instant confirmation and no prepayment is needed until the arrival to the Antwerp hotel. Local guide books are usually at no cost to hotel’s visitors.
It’s a serene and stylish city with vast numbers of sights of medieval and renaissance epochs. Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts has the largest collection of Rubens’s masterpieces. “Descent from the cross” is especially amazing work of Rubens exhibited in the Cathedral of Antwerp. The broach of this cathedral is 123 meters long and the highest in Belgium. Each Monday from May till September cathedral gives the concerts of bell ringers, so you will have a chance to listen beautiful sounds right from the window or balcony of your Antwerp hotel nearby.
Antwerp is the highest concentration of the antiquity monuments, statues and buildings in Belgium. The life is boiling all day and night long. You may take a walk from your Antwerp hotel in any direction and any time and you won’t be bored. Beautiful churches and cathedrals, old lanes and boulevards, narrow streets, café and the hospitality of affordable Antwerp hotels – all this will make your stay there an unforgettable event.
The population of Antwerp is mostly involved in trade, manufacture and service fields, including tourism and hotels/hostels sector. City offers you a great number of restaurants, bars, pubs and night clubs. As diamonds are known to be a girl's best friend, ladies will not leave out a visit to the diamond district around the Railway Station.