The Province of Antwerp bought the Rivierenhof in 1921 to keep the houses out. A century on, the 132-hectare park in Deurne draws more than a million visitors a year and still charges none of them.
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Deurne: an airport, a park and a castle for sale
Deurne, Antwerp’s second-largest district with 85,283 inhabitants, has the city’s airport, its largest park and the Bosuil, and a castle the province tried to sell.