Mechelen and Antwerpen are easily reachable by train from Brussels. Frequent trains and half-hour journey between each city. We bought the ticket between Bruxelles Gare Centrale and Antwerpen and cost € 8 one way. As we thought, the ticket allowed us to get off at Mechelen and then re-board the train to continue our journey. In a day is enough to see the two cities, but keep in mind one thing: if you visit Antwerpen afternoon, which is normal coming from Brussels, may the cathedral and many museums are already closed, so should informed of the schedule of sites that you want to visit.
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In Mechelen Centraal Station there were some slogans which leave the backpacks to visit more leisurely city. The old town is relatively far from the train station, but still decided to take a short detour to see the Brusselsepoort. This great bastion is the only remnant that remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded the city.
Brusselsepoort
We enter the old town by Hoogstraat, a quiet street flanked by relatively new low houses. We turn to give out the Vrouwekerk a fifteenth-century Gothic church that was closed. We also found the Korenmarkt nice, a street widened to form a square that was once the corn market.
Korenmarkt
Before crossing the channel Dijle River, which borders the city center, we went to see the interesting wooden houses Haverwerf. The few houses that remain are of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and were owned by merchants oats, because in this place there was a dock where it was unloaded and traded with this merchandise. Of the three, the most authentic was the middle one, Den Duivel, with its wooden facade.
Haverwerf
After crossing the river continue along Ijzerenleen another pretty nice street. Although there was a market that day and it was a chaos of cars, people, stalls ... At the end of the street was the Scheppenhuis, which was where the council met in the fourteenth century.
Ijzerenleen
Just off the Grote Markt entered the main square, and the day lived up to its name, as it was settled by a crowded market. The buildings around the square were not as nice as the other places we'd see Flemish later. But he had two buildings that were worth the visit, first approached us to admire the facade of the Stadhuis, town hall of the fourteenth century, a real marvel of Gothic art.
Grote Markt, with the cathedral in the background
Grote Markt
Stadhuis
But if anything is famous Grote Markt and Mechelen own is definitely the cathedral tower, St. Romboutskathedraal. The tower, 97 m, has a curious truncated form that was not reached to end, would reach 167 meters high. Houses a carillon with 49 bells old, the oldest in the XV century.
St. Romboutskathedraal
The interior of the cathedral is spacious and bright. In the aisles there were many works of art, but what surprised us most was the pulpit carved wooden nave....
See Belgium 4: Mechelen and Antwerpen in a larger map
In Mechelen Centraal Station there were some slogans which leave the backpacks to visit more leisurely city. The old town is relatively far from the train station, but still decided to take a short detour to see the Brusselsepoort. This great bastion is the only remnant that remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded the city.
Brusselsepoort
We enter the old town by Hoogstraat, a quiet street flanked by relatively new low houses. We turn to give out the Vrouwekerk a fifteenth-century Gothic church that was closed. We also found the Korenmarkt nice, a street widened to form a square that was once the corn market.
Korenmarkt
Before crossing the channel Dijle River, which borders the city center, we went to see the interesting wooden houses Haverwerf. The few houses that remain are of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, and were owned by merchants oats, because in this place there was a dock where it was unloaded and traded with this merchandise. Of the three, the most authentic was the middle one, Den Duivel, with its wooden facade.
Haverwerf
After crossing the river continue along Ijzerenleen another pretty nice street. Although there was a market that day and it was a chaos of cars, people, stalls ... At the end of the street was the Scheppenhuis, which was where the council met in the fourteenth century.
Ijzerenleen
Just off the Grote Markt entered the main square, and the day lived up to its name, as it was settled by a crowded market. The buildings around the square were not as nice as the other places we'd see Flemish later. But he had two buildings that were worth the visit, first approached us to admire the facade of the Stadhuis, town hall of the fourteenth century, a real marvel of Gothic art.
Grote Markt, with the cathedral in the background
Grote Markt
Stadhuis
But if anything is famous Grote Markt and Mechelen own is definitely the cathedral tower, St. Romboutskathedraal. The tower, 97 m, has a curious truncated form that was not reached to end, would reach 167 meters high. Houses a carillon with 49 bells old, the oldest in the XV century.
St. Romboutskathedraal
The interior of the cathedral is spacious and bright. In the aisles there were many works of art, but what surprised us most was the pulpit carved wooden nave....
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