Saint Rumbold's Cathedral — Attraction in Mechelen

You can enter the tower for 3 euros if you're below 25y old, so the price is alright. There is no lift only stairs which is tiring, if you consider that the tower is pretty high. On the otherhand the stairs are pretty old and it is almost the same as when it was used to loud the bells by hand which add to the historic value and on every floor there's something to see, for example, on the third floor there's a window straight down where you can see inside the church from a ceiling point of view or (I think) on the 4th floor you can see the mechanics for louding the bell.

Once you climbed the sairs you will be rewarded with a beautiful view of the city and beyond. At the top they builded a platform where you can stand. the railing is see through, so children can see it as well and it is high enough, it is even so that you are kinda...

I randomly came across the church on a friday afternoon (circa 16:30) and was enchanted by the gratifyingly long carillon (about 15min+)

The interior as well as the exterior were besides the size quite ordinary. Two things which greatly bugged me was the perpetual music which played inside the church (some random angelic sort of music) and the utterly high price to visit the tower (7€!!!)

If you ever should visit Mechelen, make sure you listen to the carillon and don't foster such unacceptable prices for...

This church is a true gem. If you read Ken Follet’s books you can feel the story and imagine how much ingenuity and work it took to built this masterpiece. Stand at the top of the tower and admire the town below and think of the efforts of people that built it. Entrance to the tower costs 8 euros, but it is worth it including your sweat making all those hundreds of stairs. Church possesses some impressive pieces of art. Even some resembling Flemish primitives, also...