ANTWERP DIAMOND CAPITAL SINCE 1447.
Antwerp is the city where all the key elements of the international diamond industry are concentrated.
Three characteristic streets known as the Diamond Square Mile offer a compact, safe and extremely professional environment to diamond buyers and traders form around the world. During working hours, the Diamond Office, Bourses, other diamond buildings, banks, shipping companies, laboratories and other services are easily accessible, facilitating hyper-efficient business and networking.
After business hours and for those with some extra time to relax and re-booth, the well-known world-class culinary skills of Antwerp chefs and restaurateurs are available in some of the best eating venues in Europe. The highest quality, range and creativity in cuisine at affordable prices with fabulous wine and beer cellars, await gourmets and enthusiasts.
A lively port city, Antwerp has streets of art galleries, antique shops and unique retail experiences on offer. In the historic city-center with 15th, 16th and 17th century buildings you can visit the stunning Cathedral of Our Lady. Antwerp also excels as an internationally recognized fashion and design hub, proudly presenting the new and unique diamond museum DIVA.
Accommodation is catered for by big brand hotels along with award-winning boutique hotels.
High quality of living thanks to international schools, direct access to affordable and high quality medical services and a secure and stable environment, is what makes all the 70 nationalities working in the diamond sector in Antwerp loving this city and choosing to raise their families here.
In Antwerp we speak diamond.
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