The Antwerp 10 Miles started in 1986 with 800 runners. For its 40th edition, in April 2026, all 40,000 places for the Sunday race sold out in under an hour.
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Havenhuis: Zaha Hadid’s glass ship on a 1922 fire station
The Port of Antwerp-Bruges keeps about 500 staff in a 105-metre glass volume that Zaha Hadid set on top of a 1922 fire station. It opened in September 2016, six months after her death.
The MAS in Antwerp stacks its history ten boxes high
The Museum aan de Stroom opened on the Eilandje in 2011: a 60-metre tower of red Indian sandstone holding more than 600,000 objects. Its best part costs nothing.
Antwerp Central Station: the railway cathedral that went underground
Louis Delacenserie’s station opened in 1905 as a terminus. A century later the railways dug 18 metres beneath it, and from December the Eurostar from London stops here.
Antwerp’s Cathedral of Our Lady took 169 years to build
Building started in 1352 and stopped, one tower short, in 1521. Inside are four works by Rubens, though one of them is away being restored for at least two years.