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: Edward Moretus
Museum Plantin-Moretus: 450 years of printing on the Vrijdagmarkt
Christophe Plantin moved his presses to the Vrijdagmarkt in 1576, and the city bought the whole firm in 1876. Closed for renovation since August, the museum reopens on 5 December 2026.