The Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy) or Palace of Margaret of Austria is an early 16th-century building in Mechelen, Belgium. It was one of the first Renaissance buildings in northern Europe. Archduchess Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands, was granted a house located in the Korte Maagdenstraat (Virgins Short Street), but she found it too small and started an ambitious expansion campaign in 1507. The Hof van […]
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Het Anker Brewery is a Flemish brewery in Mechelen, founded in 1471 by a community of Beguines. Expanding its assortment from lager to ale, it began producing “Emperor beer” after World War II. They opened a brasserie and a hotel, and in 2010 began producing a single malt whisky, distilled from the Gouden Carolus Tripel. Products GOUDEN CAROLUS BEERS Gouden Carolus Classic Gouden Carolus Triple […]
Alken-Maes is a Belgian brewery created out of the 1988 merger of two small breweries, Maes located at Kontich-Waarloos and Cristal-Alken located at Alken. Products Pils: Maes pils, Cristal and Kronenbourg 1664 Brown beers: Zulte, Judas, Brown Ciney and Special Ciney Blond beers: Blond Ciney, Hapkin Abbey beers: Affligem, Grimbergen (blond, Trippel, Optimo Bruno, Dubbel and Cuvée de l’Ermitage) Wheat beer: Brugs Spontaneous fermentation (lambic) beers: Mort Subite (gueuze […]
Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn, usually known as De Lijn, is a company run by the Flemish government in Belgium to provide public transportation with about 2240 buses and 399 trams. De Lijn was founded in 1991 after the public transportation companies of Antwerp and Ghent fused with the Flemish part of the NMVB (Nationale Maatschappij van Buurtspoorwegen, or the “National Company of Neighborhood Railways”). De Lijn operates: Antwerp […]
Individual visits WHEN? from 2 March to 29 March 2020: every Saturdayfrom 4 April to 8 November 2020: daily from 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., with an additional round trip at 11 am from 1 May to 30 Septemberfrom November 14 to November 24 2020: every Saturday PRICE 7 EUR | Adult 5 EUR | Children (4-12 years) […]
The Royal Manufacture of Tapestries De Wit is a company, founded in 1889 in Mechelen , specialized in the restoration of tapestries. De Wit weaves, conserves, buys, sells tapestries and regularly organizes exhibitions on this theme. The Tapestries Manufacture is world famous. The restorers restore valuable tapestries by hand. Partly thanks to the up-to-date cleaning and conservation systems, De Wit receives commissions from the […]
Planckendael is a zoo, located on the grounds of Planckendael castle in the village district of Muizen, in Mechelen, Belgium. In 1956 the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp (KMDA) bought the Planckendael estate in order to acquire a larger space for animals than what they owned: the city zoo in Antwerp. Planckendael hosts exotic animals like rhinos, bison and various antelope species. The layout […]
Museum Het Zotte Kunstkabinet in Mechelen is a museum with paintings from the 16th century . The focus is on satirically moralizing paintings with original works from the region of Hieronymus Bosch . The collection includes works by the studio Jheronimus Bosch, Jan Verbeeck , Frans Verbeeck , Pieter Brueghel the Younger , Jan Massijs , Hans Baldung , Marten van Cleve the Elder , Otto van Veen , etc. All these painters had close contacts with the rhetoricians . Explanation of all […]
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln in German, also known as the Dossin barracks, was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium. It served as a point to gather Belgian Jews and Romani ahead of their deportation to concentration and extermination camps in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust. The camp was established in March 1942 and was the only transit camp in […]
Technopolis is a Flemish technology education centre located near Mechelen. Technopolis is an initiative which grew out of the Flanders Technology International (FTI) Foundation, which was an initiative of the Flemish government. Since 7 October 1999, the FTI offices are located within the premises of the Technopolis centre and the name of the organization was changed to Technopolis. The goal of the […]
Fort Breendonk is a former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium which served as a Nazi prison camp (Auffanglager) during the German occupation of Belgium during World War II. Fort Breendonk was requisitioned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) shortly after the Belgian surrender on 28 May 1940 and used as a prison camp for the detention of political prisoners, resistance members, and Jews. Although technically […]
St. Rumbold’s Cathedral (Dutch: Sint-Romboutskathedraal) is the Belgian metropolitan archiepiscopalcathedral in Mechelen, dedicated to Saint Rumbold, Christian missionary and martyr who had founded an abbey nearby. His remains are rumoured to be buried inside the cathedral. Standing tall in the Grote Market, but visible throughout the entire city, the St-Romboutskathedraal stands just shy of 100 metres tall. Summiting the tower involves climbing 500 steps and can take […]
The Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” (Dutch: Koninklijke Beiaardschool “Jef Denyn”) in Mechelen, Belgium, is the first and largest carillon school in the world. The Belgian government defines it as an “International Higher Institute for the Carillon Arts under the High Protection of Her Majesty Queen Fabiola.” The Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” is a state-subsidized educational institute, and its several courses of study fall […]
Thomas More University College or Thomas More Hogeschool – public higher education institution in Belgium. Education type Bachelor Professional bachelor (English) Graduate Bachelor-after-bachelor Postgraduate degree Further training
Galapagos NV (formerly known as Galapagos Genomics) is a European pharmaceutical research company which was founded in 1999. The company develops drugs against rheumatoid arthritis, crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, systemic lupus erythematosus and cystic fibrosis.
Telenet Group is the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of analog and digital cable television, fixed and mobile telephone services, primarily to residential customers in Flanders and Brussels. In addition, Telenet offers services to business customers all across Belgium and in Luxembourg under its brand Telenet Solutions. Internet Telephony Television
Mechelen is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Though now in the shadow of Brussels, Mechelen is a historically important city in its own right. From 1506 to 1530 it was the capital of the Netherlands under Margaret of Austria. In 1559 it became an archbishopric, a sign of great importance. It was […]