Hemiksem

Hemiksem is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp . Hemiksem has about 11,000 population. The village is located on the proper bank of the Scheldt , a few kilometers south of the city of Antwerp . Hemiksem is located in the Rupel region and belongs to the electoral canton and the judicial canton of Boom. Since 2004, the municipality has had a crowd puller within the shadow of the Abbey, inside the shape of a pageant known as Casa Blanca .

In ten years, this competition grew to come to be a longtime cost with greater than 80,000 visitors. Because the pageant became too famous and too massive, it changed into removed, the closing version of Casa Blanca was held in 2013. Every yr a one-of-a-kind company organizes some thing else in a small layout and at the equal location. In Hemiksem, pedestrians and cyclists can take the bicycle and pedestrian ferry throughout the Scheldt to Basel , a part of Kruibeke . This ferry carrier has been round for the reason that thirteenth century.