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June 19, 1999
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Antwerp is worth a visit with or without the Van Dyck summer.

I was drawn to the city decades ago when a conductor on a train from Amsterdam to Paris announced with gusto, "Antwerpen! Antwerpen! Antwerpen!"

The Flemish name of the city still sounds more exciting than the English "Antwerp" or the French "Anvers."

Flanders - Antwerp is its principal city - is the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium - as opposed to Wallonia and Brussels, where French is the major language, and a small section in the east, where German is spoken. In Antwerp, the American tourist probably hears more English than French.

Antwerp, population 450,000, is on ...

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