Antwerp Cathedral. Belgium.
Call me old fashioned, but I love visiting a cathedral.
However secular a culture may be, their religious institutions contain traces of the fundamental values that colour a society. In the case of the Antwerp Cathedral, it spoke to me of a hertiage rich with experimentation and adoption, open-minded, acquistive, and inquisitive.
There's a richness of colour, and playfulness with pattern and design that is unique among the many I've visited in Europe. There's a lovely record of the layers of occupations and style. Heraldic identity is strong, and somehow there is a sense of independence from Catholic dogma.
