The way Michelle’s eyes darted, she seemed to be watching a little girl and boy playing tag around a fountain featuring a bronze statue of Silvius Brabo, a legendary hero of Antwerp. Brabo defeated a giant named Druon Antigoon and is shown throwing the enemy’s severed hand into the Schelde River. The Flemish word for this is handwerpen, hence the city’s name. In the background is the centerpiece of Grote Markt square: Stadhuis. The mid-sixteenth-century City Hall is decorated with European and consulate country flags.
