During our visit to Belgium, we could not refuse to visit the diamond kingdom called Antwerp.
Antwerp is one of the largest ports in Europe, is a city of Rubens, exquisite townhouses and palaces, a city of Jewish goldsmiths and diamond grinders.
The Jewish quarter and goldsmiths' street is one of the city's greatest attractions. The district near the main railway station is mainly inhabited by Hasidim from Eastern Europe and is called "jodenkwartier", formerly because of that it was also called Little Warsaw (klein Warschau).
For over 500 years, he has been trading in diamonds in Antwerp. Half of all diamonds in the world are sold in Antwerp. In Diamondland on the Appelmansstraat street (transversal Keyserlei) there is a large showroom with more than 1,500 jewelery with diamonds.
