Every Friday morning a bailiff and an auctioneer sell household goods from bankruptcies and estates on the Vrijdagmarkt, as the square has done since 1549. Under it, the district uncovered two Cold War bunkers.
Tag: Derek Blyth
Bar Paniek, the Kattendijkdok summer bar that comes down every autumn
Since 2015 the artists’ collective Timecircus has built Bar Paniek each spring in two sheds on the Kattendijkdok, from salvaged wood and old window frames, and taken it down each autumn.
The Vlaeykensgang: the 1591 alley saved from a car park
Behind a door at Oude Koornmarkt 16, Antwerp’s Vlaeykensgang has twisted between about ten houses since 1591. The city wanted a car park; in 1969 Axel Vervoordt bought the houses instead.