St James’s church in Antwerp is still the starting point for pilgrims journeying to Santiago de Compostela.
This Late Gothic collegiate church has a particularly splendid baroque interior – a feast of marble – and contains a vast art collection by painters such as Rubens, Jordaens, Van Balen …
It also contains the burial chapel of Peter ¨Paul Rubens. His parish church (Rubens’s house is at a stone’s throw) still radiates the grandeur of a fashionable neighbourhood with well-off citizens; to-day it’s a student’s district.
Recently fabulous 16th century frescoes were discovered in the church.