Immerse yourself in Flemish art and Renaissance flair at a luxury hotel in Antwerp with Small Luxury Hotels of the World. This multicultural port city is cutting edge with its Diamond Quarter, creative chocolatiers and haute couture fashion designers.
Luxury things to do in Antwerp
Pass filigree guild houses and the Renaissance Town Hall to the centre of Grote Markt square where sea monsters and mermaids coil around Brabo Fountain’s feet. Antwerp’s prosperous history as a diamond-cutting hub is told in glittering galleries at the world’s largest Diamond Museum. Step out from your luxury hotel towards Nationalestraat, where Antwerp fashion designer Dries van Noten has set up his flagship store in a handsome Belle Epoque-style emporium.
Luxury culture in Antwerp
Self-portraits and Roman sculptures fill the elegant spaces of Peter Paul Rubens’ Antwerp residence, Rubenshuis, and its regal gardens. Glide between open-air Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore sculptures in Middelheim Park. Budding couture designers from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts showcase their catwalk creations at ultra-chic ModeMuseum. Statues of Apollo and the nine muses look down on the bohemian Latin Quarter from the top of the neoclassical Bourla Theatre.
Gourmet Antwerp
The up-and-coming Zuid district is known for its quirky, world cuisine brasseries from Thai to tapas. Restaurants along the River Scheldt dish up bowls of fresh mussels with Belgian frites as well as paling in’t groen – eel in green sorrel sauce. The cobbles lanes behind Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal cathedral are the best spot to seek out bars selling local Geneva gin and traditional cafés serving rare Ossehaas beef tenderloin. Chandeliers light up the counters packed with delicious handcrafted pralines in Del Rey chocolatier.
Stay in the heart of Antwerp’s exclusive historic quarter with Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Surround yourself with lavish interior design in a 17th-century, boutique townhouse set in a peaceful city garden.