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Antwerp

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General presentation

The city of Antwerp is the third largest city in Belgium and lies on the River Schelde. The city has an extensive port with an important petrochemical activity. The city is a world centre of the diamond trade and has a very rich historic centre. The Grote Markt, the town hall and the guild houses are a major tourist attraction. The Gothic Our Lady’s Cathedral, with its 123 metre-high tower, is the most important beacon in the city skyline. Since 2012 the city has a lighting plan and switched to LED.

Number of inhabitants: 536 000

Our LUCI-membership really is an added value to our city lighting programme because of the exchange of best practices and the technical and creative information. It’s an inspiration to implement some of those ideas in the Antwerp city lighting resulting in an even more attractive and adequately illuminated public space.

City of Antwerp

Urban lighting in Antwerp

For its public lighting, the city of Antwerp has 60.000 light points across its entire territory. In order to make it sustainable and manage it within a structured vision, the Studiebureau Stramien/Antico created the “General Lighting Plan” for the city in 2012, which is now being put into practice. In 2021 the city developed the “100% LED in 2030” light action plan to make sure every light point in the streets, parks and neighborhoods of Antwerp is being switched to LED by 2030. When building and redeveloping the public domain, the recommendations from both plans are always taken into account, ensuring an attractive urban environment both at night and during the day.