Metroji clue #124

Antwerp in five emoji

Belgium

A port that made its money twice, four hundred years apart, and a city where the railway station is the building people photograph. The diamonds and the docks are the same story.

What each emoji refers to

The rough diamond trade works out of a few streets beside the central station and has done for centuries.
The port is the second largest in Europe, behind Rotterdam.
Rubens ran a workshop here for forty years, and his house is still standing.
Antwerp Central was finished in 1905 with a stone facade and an iron dome, and gets called the railway cathedral.
Flat and Flemish. The cycle route to the left bank runs through a 1933 tunnel under the Scheldt with the original wooden escalators.

Antwerp at a glance

Country
Belgium
Coordinates
51.22Β° N, 4.40Β° E
First played

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from Antwerp.

City Distance Direction
BrusselsBelgium 40 km
RotterdamNetherlands 80 km
BrugesBelgium 80 km
UtrechtNetherlands 110 km
AmsterdamNetherlands 130 km
CologneGermany 180 km

Today's city is a different one

Metroji picks a new city every day at midnight, wherever you are. Everyone gets the same one, so scores are comparable.

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