Postcard from Belgium

Antwerpen is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions.

Antwerpen has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux both economically and culturally, especially before the Spanish Fury of the Dutch Revolt. It is located on the right bank of the river Scheldt, which is linked to the North Sea by the estuary Westerschelde.