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Today, Permeke is Antwerp's main library, but have you ever wondered why the staircase is so strange? And did you know that barrels were once made here to mature Elixir d'Anvers? And that the library is named after Oscar Permeke, who lived here?

Although it is often said, "It's not a cathedral," the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Watervliet bears this nickname with hidden pride and a nod to the Middle Ages. Located on the beautiful Stee, the church is reminiscent of late Burgundian Flanders, when Philip the Fair of Habsburg took over the reins in Flanders and Hiëronymus Lauwerijn