Antwerp - backstreets, people, etc.
It's time to finish with my walks along Antwerp. Today backstreets or how live ordinary Antwerpians :
Today I will show some backstreets of Antwerp. Such streets show better the everyday life of the residents of some town or country. Antwerp was the single town in Belgium in which I found the something similar to the districts of commieblocks that are usual in the eastern countries. In does not mean that in other towns there are no them but e.g. in Brussels I saw only separate houses or the collection of typical buildings but not the districts in the sense it has here:
Something well known but I didn't explored those districts in more detail since I haven't enough time. And also I don't had enough wish to visit them.
But it seems that in Antwerp such multiflat residential buildings are more popular and found more frequently:
Between such buildings you can often found remaining witnessed of XIXth century:
In Antwerp as in many Western European cities you can find many "classical" monuments. This is such a sharp contrast with Lithuania and neighboring countries: historical conditions of XIXth century and early XXth century prevented the appearance of "classical" monuments in our towns:
And in principle Antwerp "big center" is dominated by the XIXth century houses - school building:
Insertions of modern architecture are found also time to time. What I can say - the globalization ...
Closer to the old town buildings are more respectable:
Modern but older office building:
New Europeans :)))
This male kissing ceremony for me always was strange :))
But comparing with Brussels Antwerp has very few immigrants in my personal observations. Antwerp center in midday:
And here I want to finish my reports about the richest town in Europe in XVIth century.
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Today I will show some backstreets of Antwerp. Such streets show better the everyday life of the residents of some town or country. Antwerp was the single town in Belgium in which I found the something similar to the districts of commieblocks that are usual in the eastern countries. In does not mean that in other towns there are no them but e.g. in Brussels I saw only separate houses or the collection of typical buildings but not the districts in the sense it has here:
Something well known but I didn't explored those districts in more detail since I haven't enough time. And also I don't had enough wish to visit them.
But it seems that in Antwerp such multiflat residential buildings are more popular and found more frequently:
Between such buildings you can often found remaining witnessed of XIXth century:
In Antwerp as in many Western European cities you can find many "classical" monuments. This is such a sharp contrast with Lithuania and neighboring countries: historical conditions of XIXth century and early XXth century prevented the appearance of "classical" monuments in our towns:
And in principle Antwerp "big center" is dominated by the XIXth century houses - school building:
Insertions of modern architecture are found also time to time. What I can say - the globalization ...
Closer to the old town buildings are more respectable:
Modern but older office building:
New Europeans :)))
This male kissing ceremony for me always was strange :))
But comparing with Brussels Antwerp has very few immigrants in my personal observations. Antwerp center in midday:
And here I want to finish my reports about the richest town in Europe in XVIth century.
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