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Sint-Andries, Antwerp — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sint-Andries is a quarter of Antwerp south of the old centre, its streets gathered around St. Andrew's Church and the fashion museum MoMu.
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Where to stay in Sint-Andries
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Rooms here sit south of the old core. Sint-Andries keeps a plainer street pattern than the museum blocks north of it, and a bed among its houses still leaves Museum Plantin-Moretus, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal and the Rubenshuis inside a short walk. Evenings run to small tables rather than terraces.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp stands a few streets on, past the southern edge of the quarter.
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The St. Andrew's Church lanes
The parish lanes under St. Andrew's Church hold the oldest fabric of Sint-Andries, blocks too tight to have taken the scale of the museum streets north of them.Find hotels in The St. Andrew's Church lanesdesign visitors who want MoMu and the fashion shopfronts at the doorThe MoMu shopfronts
MoMu and the fashion shopfronts around it draw the quarter's daytime traffic, and the walk north from them reaches Museum Plantin-Moretus in a few minutes.Find hotels in The MoMu shopfrontsart-first stays that trade the parish lanes for the southern galleriesThe southern museum edge
South of Sint-Andries the streets give onto the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, M HKA and FOMU Photo Museum Antwerp, three collections inside a single walk.Find hotels in The southern museum edgeHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
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Museums & Galleries
8- Museum Plantin-Moretus UNESCO
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal Heritage
- Het Steen Heritage
- Rubenshuis Heritage
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- Red Star Line Museum Heritage
- Vleeshuis Heritage
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Churches & Religious Sites
4- Carolus Borromeuskerk Heritage
- St. James' Church, Antwerp Heritage
- St. Paul's Church Heritage
- St. Andrew's Church, Antwerp Heritage
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About Sint-Andries
What are the main landmarks in Sint-Andries?
MoMu carries the quarter's best-known name. The fashion museum of Antwerp sits among the shopfronts of Sint-Andries, and Museum Plantin-Moretus stands a few streets north at the seam with the old city. St. Andrew's Church holds the other pole of the quarter.
Walk ten minutes from it and the reach widens to Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, the Rubenshuis, Antwerp City Hall and Het Steen, with the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp the same distance the other way.
What is the history of Sint-Andries?
A parish church set the name. Sint-Andries is called after St. Andrew's Church, and the quarter has carried that name on the south side of the centre while Antwerp raised the guild city whose Antwerp City Hall and Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal stand a short walk north. Museum Plantin-Moretus keeps the older ground at the quarter's northern seam.
Antwerp later folded Sint-Andries into its own district, and the boundary that results is administrative rather than anything the street pattern marks.
Where is Sint-Andries?
Sint-Andries lies directly south of Antwerp's old centre, a close grid of streets that a walk crosses in fifteen minutes.
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What is the best area to stay in Sint-Andries?
The St. Andrew's Church lanes: a bed on the parish ground that gave Sint-Andries its name. The MoMu shopfronts: design visitors who want MoMu and the fashion shopfronts at the door. The southern museum edge: art-first stays that trade the parish lanes for the southern galleries.
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Updated October 2026