Free audio walk in Antwerp
Antwerp locals you need to know
- 72 min
- 4.4 km
- 10 stops
- Free
Starts at Vrijdagmarktstraatje 2
About this walk
Antwerp has always drawn people who wanted to leave their mark. Artists, merchants, free thinkers, rebels. On this route, you meet the men and women who shaped the city into what it is today, and hear the stories the stones cannot tell.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
Christoffel Plantijn
One man printed Bibles for the Pope, worked for the Spanish king, and secretly supplied the rebels — all from the same building.
- 2Stop 2
Rubens Statue on Groenplaats
He painted for kings, negotiated for monarchs, and somehow still found time to make Antwerp the cultural capital of Europe.
- 3Stop 3
Pieter Appelmans Monument
This bronze monument tells the story of the hands that built one of Europe's most breathtaking cathedrals — and most of those hands belong to people nobody ever bothered to name.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
Nello and Patrasche
A boy and his dog once walked these cobblestones, and their story broke hearts across an entire continent.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Quinten Matsys
A blacksmith fell in love, picked up a paintbrush, and fooled a man into swatting a fly that was never there.
Read the story - 6
- 7Stop 7
Gilbert van Schoonbeke
One man reshaped an entire city in just fifteen years, and this building was where his ambition became controversial.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
The White Brigade – Fidelio Resistance Network
On this quiet street, a schoolteacher secretly built one of Belgium's most daring resistance networks right under the noses of Nazi occupiers.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
Lange Wapper
The bronze giant looming beside Het Steen was the last monster left in Antwerp, and the city never quite managed to get rid of him.
Read the story - 10Stop 10
Suske and Wiske Mural on Korte Ridderstraat
Two comic book heroes, a medieval ghost, and a cathedral backdrop — this wall tells the whole story of Antwerp in a single glance.
Ready when you are
Walk Antwerp locals you need to know with ROODS.
10 stops through Antwerp, about 72 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
