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Antwerp Cathedral and Rubens Art

Antwerp Cathedral and Rubens Art

Antwerp · Belgium

7 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow a focused walk through Antwerp’s museums and churches connected with Cathedral of Our Lady and Rubens art. You will move from the Rubenshuis museum through St James’s Church, Snijders & Rockoxhuis, and three historic churches before reaching the cathedral and KMSKA. Along the way, compare Rubens’s presence in museum collections with his religious art in Antwerp’s churches. It is a rewarding route for seeing how one artist’s work is woven into the city’s cultural and sacred spaces.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.

  1. Rubens House

    Rubens House

    Rubens’s home, workshop and art factory, returned to Antwerp as a museum in nineteen forty-six.

  2. St James's Church

    St James's Church

    A pilgrim church turned Rubens’s parish, packed with Baroque art and more than 1,300 graves.

  3. Snijders & Rockoxhuis

    Snijders & Rockoxhuis

    Two neighbours, one museum: a mayor's house joined to the home of Frans Snijders.

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. St. Charles Borromeo Church

    St. Charles Borromeo Church

    A Christian church in Antwerp, Belgium.

  6. St Paul's Church

    St Paul's Church

    A Gothic Dominican church whose Baroque interior survived fire, war, and the loss of two major altarpieces.

  7. Cathedral of Our Lady

    Cathedral of Our Lady

    A Gothic cathedral rebuilt through fire, revolt, occupation, and the paintings of Rubens.

  8. Stop 7

  9. 1 more stop in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

1 more stop in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.