Berchem
Berchem is a southern district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Berchem is a southern district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Berchem is located along the old Grote Steenweg that has connected Brussels to Antwerp for several centuries; the town borders the districts of Deurne, Borgerhout, Wilrijk and Antwerp and the municipality of Mortsel. Berchem itself consists of three quarters, Oud Berchem, Groenenhoek and Nieuw Kwartier.
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Worth seeing in and around Berchem
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin–Moretus Museum is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium which showcases the history of printing in Antwerp and the prominent role played in that history by the family of printers founded by Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century. It is based in a building on the Vrijdagmarkt in Antwerp that served as the residence of the Plantin-Moretus family and the location of the printing company, the Officina Plantina, for four centuries.
3.9 km · museum in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 02Olympisch Stadion Antwerp
The Olympisch Stadion or Kielstadion was built as the main stadium for the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. For those games, it hosted the athletics, equestrian, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rugby union, tug of war, weightlifting and korfball events.
3.6 km · football stadium in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 03University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is UAntwerp.
4 km · university in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 04Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. This collection is representative of the artistic production and the taste of art enthusiasts in Antwerp, Belgium and the Northern and Southern Netherlands since the 15th century.
3.4 km · arts museum in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 05Rubenshuis
The Rubenshuis is the former home and workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. Purchased in 1610, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself.
3.4 km · museum in Antwerp, Belgium, formerly the home and studio of Peter Paul Rubens · Wikipedia - 06Antwerp Zoo
Antwerp Zoo is a zoo in the centre of Antwerp, Belgium, located next to the Antwerpen-Centraal railway station. The zoo is the oldest animal park in Belgium, and one of the oldest in the world; it was established on 21 July 1843.
3 km · zoo in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 07Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Museum Mayer van den Bergh is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, the collection of which is based on the vast collection of the art dealer and collector Fritz Mayer van den Bergh. The majority of the art works and objects are from the Gothic and Renaissance periods in Belgium, including paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
3.4 km · art museum in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 08Carolus Borromeuskerk
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Roman Catholic church in central Antwerp, Belgium, located on the Hendrik Conscienceplein.
3.9 km · church in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 09Les Peupliers
Maison Guiette also known as Les Peupliers, is a house in Antwerp, Belgium, designed by Le Corbusier in 1926 and built in 1927. It was the studio and living quarters of René Guiette, a painter and art critic.
2.8 km · House by Le Corbusier in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 10St. James' Church, Antwerp
St. James' Church is a former collegiate church in Antwerp, Belgium.
3.7 km · church building in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Berchem
- Airports
- Brussels (BRU), 32 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 72 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 81 km
- Stations
- Antwerp International Airport, 1.9 km · Antwerp-Central railway station, 3.1 km · Antwerp-Berchem railway station, 1.1 km · Antwerp-South railway station, 3.1 km
- Charleroi → Berchem87 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · €11–15
- Oostende → Berchem105 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · €12–17
- Eindhoven → Berchem78 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · €9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Berchem. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are some regular, but mostly seasonal flights to various popular holiday destinations in Southern Europe, Morocco and Turkey, as well as private and chartered (business) aviation.
- Get inFrom the United Kingdom: take your bike on the ferry from Dover to Dunkerque (France, 20 km from the Belgian border, from the ferry port is actually over 30 km) and follow the coastal road from there until you reach De Panne (Belgium).
- Go nextSome of the more popular destinations that can be visited on a day trip from Antwerp are: Bruges (Brugge) — Very nice medieval town.
- Go nextThe train ride is pretty long (sometimes over two hours) making it less easy for a day trip.
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Next door to Berchem
Berchem is 4 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mortselmunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium2.8 km
- District of Borsbeekdistrict of Antwerp, Belgium3.9 km
- Sack of Antwerp1576 sack of the city of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War3.7 km
- Borgerhoutdistrict of the City of Antwerp, Belgium2.6 km
- Antwerp diamond districtarea within the city of Antwerp, Belgium2.9 km