Rubenshuis

Visitors will find a vibrant, creative hub teeming with coffee shops, restaurants, boutiques, galleries, and museums in Belgium's second-largest city. The 16th-century Stadhuis (Town Hall), richly adorned guild buildings, and Brabo Fountain on the Grote Markt make for wonderful photo opportunities. But it is the Rubenshuis in Antwerp that tops our list of important locations to see in Belgium.

The city purchased the home in 1937, and the Rubenshuis was presented to the public in 1946 after considerable renovation. The rooms were filled with dozens of paintings and artworks by Rubens and his contemporaries, as well as period furniture. His early Adam and Eve (c. 1600) and a self-portrait from around the age of fifty are among his paintings.

A tour of Rubens House provides art fans with a unique view into the life, career, and art of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), probably the world's finest baroque artist.