Festivals & events – All our local tips

Just like any other big city Antwerp has its own exposition center. The variety of expositions and events provide to a wide range of visitors the opportunity to acquire different things: from particular services to renovation ideas, from hobbies to books, for babies, for adults, and the list goes on and on.

Although most of the events are focused on locals, some events are more welcoming to foreign visitors. Most of the expositors speak other languages like Dutch, French and English, but that is not it; themes like Mega Eroticabeurs , and Parascoop beurzen can be appealing to any traveler why not?

For more information on Eroticabeurs check their website. Who knows; this may become a learning experience. And if you are looking for the meaning of life, the Parascoop beurzen website can also be of great help.

Practical tips: Antwerp Expo is very easy to reach, just take tram 2 or 6 from the city centre. Otherwise jump on the bus 26, or 25 or 27. If you come by car be aware in the residential area you are allowed to park for limited time.

Mega Eroticabeurs | 13 -14 March 2010
Sat 14:00 – 01:00, Sun 13:00 – 22:00

Paranormale Beurs: Parascoop | 28 March 2010
Thu 10:00 – 18:00

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Antwerp Exposed | Art & culture, Festivals & events
Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 191 | Zuid
Mon – Sat 09:00 – 01:00

When you are in Antwerp on a Friday morning, it is something you really have to see: the strange and famous ‘Vrijdagse Markt’. Go there!

It’s great and it’s so typically Antwerp. It’s a little adventure on a Friday morning. It’s a second hand market but what it makes different is the way of selling: it ’s an auction, they talk really ‘aantwaarps’ and sometimes you think they will be fighting soon because people get all incited.

They mostly sell furniture and bicycles but it is incredible what else you can buy there: a box with toothbrushes made in 1963, a complete correspondence between a mother and a son over twenty years, a broken toaster, dirty teddy bears, etc. Sometimes it is real rubbish and sometimes it is a treasure. A lot of the things come from old people that died, shops that went bankrupt.

It starts at nine in the morning and it finishes at one o’clock in the afternoon. The garbage car comes between one and two and cleans the whole square. And that’s necessary. All the things that nobody wanted are left behind.

I don’t know how long it already exists, but I guess it was always there. I’m mostly working on a Friday morning and i don’t go there often, but when I have the chance i don’t want to miss it, this special market, so lively, so energetic.

And maybe nice to know: the museum of Plantijn en Moretus is on the same square…

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Friday Market | Art & culture, Shopping, Festivals & events | Free
Vrijdagmarkt | Meir
Fri 09:00 – 13:00