Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
The Grote Markt is the main square of Mechelen, covering about one hectare beside St. Rumbold's Cathedral. The City Hall stands on it, and historic houses line it, among them De Beyaerd with its stepped gable and four lions, bought by the city in 1383, and In het Haentien of 1773 with a gilded cockerel on its gable.
Zoo in Muizen, Mechelen, run by the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, which bought the Planckendael estate in 1956 and opened it to the public in 1960. Animals are grouped by continent in open, landscaped enclosures, including elephants, rhinos, bonobos and giraffes, and the estate's castle of 1780 stands at the old main entrance.
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