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Antwerp diamond district

Antwerp's diamond district, also known as the Diamond Quarter, and dubbed the Square Mile, is an area within the city of , . It consists of several square blocks covering an area of about one square mile.
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Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: area within the city of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Diamant - Stadspark”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antwerpen-Centraal railway station and Antwerp Zoo.

Railway station
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the main railway station in , Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is one of the four Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network.

Zoo
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is a zoo in the centre of , , located next to the . The zoo is the oldest animal park in Belgium, and one of the oldest in the world; it was established on 21 July 1843.

Museum
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The is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in . Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Universiteitsbuurt and Zurenborg.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Quarter
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is an area in south-east largely developed between 1894 and 1906 that features a high concentration of townhouses in Art Nouveau and other fin-de-siècle styles.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Antwerp diamond district

Latitude
51.21403° or 51° 12′ 51″ north
Longitude
4.41868° or 4° 25′ 7″ east
Open location code
9F366C79+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11449675984
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q4777485
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Antwerp diamond district” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حي الماس في أنتويرب”
  • Dutch: “Diamant (wijk)”
  • Dutch: “Diamant”
  • French: “Quartier des Diamantaires”
  • Greek: “Συνοικία Διαμαντιών της Αμβέρσας”
  • Polish: “Dzielnica diamentowa w Antwerpii”
  • Slovenian: “antwerpenska četrt diamantov”
  • Slovenian: “Antwerpensko okrožje diamantov”
  • Spanish: “Barrio de los Diamantes”

Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Antwerp diamond district”. Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.