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Discover Mechelen with your head in the clouds!

Around 1560 the beguinage outside the city walls was destroyed. The beguines re-established themselves inside the city walls, where the Large Beguinage grew up. They bought up...

The Hanswijk Cavalcade occupies a special place in Mechelen's rich tradition of processions and pageants. The Hanswijk Cavalcade only takes place once every 25 years, unlike the...

The present-day town hall on the Grote Markt consists of two parts: the cloth hall with unfinished bell tower and the Palace of the Great Council.