We saw a bunch of countries, a ton of cities, and hundreds of sites around Europe with CGI’s study abroad trip this fall. While most of the 5 weeks we were gone was spent traveling from place to place, we spent our first week primarily in Antwerp, Belgium. We got to know and love the city while we were there—it became our “home away from home”—a nice place to come back to a bit of familiarity in between all of our other travels.
Thundar was first spotted in Europe at what is possibly the most beautiful site in Antwerp—the “Cathedral of Our Lady.” This imposing Roman Catholic cathedral is one of the largest in the world. The building was started in 1352 and completed nearly 200 years later in 1521. Think about that for a minute—they started building this cathedral began almost 700 years ago—and it took them 200 years to complete it! Can you imagine working on the same project for 200 years? I’m guessing not—I think a lot of us would have trouble working on the same project for just 2 years!
Though actually, as you might imagine, after 200 years of construction somebody must have decided that this project was taking too long and decided to take a shortcut. Instead of the originally intended twin towers of the same height, you can see in the picture one magnificent tower and a second, well, not quite so magnificent tower. But it gives the cathedral character J
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