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Hidden History: Nijmegen

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Stevenskerk

Nijmegen's medieval mother church.

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Sint-Nicolaaskapel

The oldest stone building in the Netherlands.

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Ruïne van Barbarossa

The apse of Frederik Barbarossa's imperial palace — all that remains after Napoleonic troops dismantled the p…

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De Stratemakerstoren

A bastion built into the riverside wall, now a small museum about Nijmegen's military and underground past —…

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Mariënburgkapel

A late-Gothic chapel that survived by being constantly repurposed.

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Besiendershuis

Once the customs house where the river toll-master 'saw' each ship that passed.

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Bombardement-monument

On a clear winter morning, U.S.

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Belvédère

An octagonal watchtower built on the city wall.

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Hunnerpark — 504 PIR Memorial

A modest stone in the Hunnerpark commemorates the U.S.

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Waalbrug

Once the longest single-span bridge in Europe.

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Hunerberg — Romeinse castra

Site of the legionary fortress that gave Nijmegen its Roman name, Noviomagus.

Romeinse tijd

Kronenburgertoren

A round defensive tower from the medieval city wall, now standing incongruously in a 19th-century park design…

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Romeinse Thermen Nijmegen-West

Beneath Nijmegen-West lie the remains of Ulpia Noviomagus.

Romeinse tijd

Heilig Land Stichting

An open-air park reconstructing biblical Jerusalem in miniature, built by Catholic priests as an alternative…

Watervalmolen Beek

A rare watermill driven by a small Veluwe-style brook in the Beek valley — most disappeared centuries ago.

Middeleeuwen

Romeins Aquaduct

Earthen channels in a forest south of the city, all that remains of a 6 km Roman aqueduct that fed the legion…

Romeinse tijd

Bartholomeüskerk Beek

Romanesque village church on the site of an earlier Carolingian chapel.

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Duivelsberg

A wooded hilltop annexed from Germany after WW2 as reparations and quietly retroceded to West Germany in 1963.

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De Holdeurn

Roman pottery and brickworks that supplied the legionary fortress.

Romeinse tijd

Zevenheuvelenweg

The 'seven hills road' through the moraine ridge.

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Cosmas en Damianuskerk

Late-Gothic village church, badly damaged in 1944 and rebuilt from rubble using its original stones.

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Vrijheidsmuseum

The Liberation Museum, on the very ground where the 82nd Airborne dropped on 17 September 1944.

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Canadian War Cemetery

2,610 Canadian and Commonwealth soldiers rest here, most fallen in Operation Veritable's push into the Reichs…

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