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Utrecht

Things to see in Utrecht

28 sights, museums, parks and places worth the stop.

A long-exposure night photograph of a historic brick gatehouse with two towers on the left and a central arched waterway passage, illuminated by artificial lights and reflected in the calm water below.

Amersfoort · Fortresses

Koppelpoort

Medieval gatehouse with integrated drawbridge
A black and white photograph showing the facades of two adjacent brick buildings with stepped gables and awnings over ground-floor shop windows, with a street sign on the right reading "MUNSTRAAT".

Oudewater · Cultural Experiences

Cute shops

Charming boutiques in a historic witch town
Kasteel Duurstede's round tower and square keep beside the moat in Wijk bij Duurstede

Wijk Bij Duurstede · Cultural Experiences

Kasteeltuin Duurstede

13th-century medieval water castle in Wijk bij Duurstede
Oud Amelisweerd country house museum

Amelisweerd · History & Heritage

Museum Oud Amelisweerd

18th-century mansion with historic art and wallpapers
An aerial view of a small, circular island fortification surrounded by a moat and green fields, with a canal running through the landscape and houses nearby.

Loosdrechtse Plassen · Activities & Adventure

Nieuweweg Cycle Path to Fort Tienhoven

Scenic cycle path along water and reed beds
Entree Ouwehands Dierenpark banner

Rhenen · Family Activities

Ouwehands Zoo

Home to the Netherlands’ only giant panda enclosure
A landscape view of a wide body of water with a foreground of green reeds and bushes, and a background island or bank featuring a dense cluster of tall, dead, leafless tree trunks standing in the water.

Wijk Bij Duurstede · Activities & Adventure

De Biesbosch National Park (Nearby)

Freshwater tidal delta in the Netherlands
Mondriaanhuis on the Kortegracht, Amersfoort

Amersfoort · Cultural Experiences

Mondriaanhuis

Birthplace and museum of painter Piet Mondrian
The Cunera tower of Rhenen above the meadows

Rhenen · History & Heritage

Sint Cunerakerk

Late Gothic church with historic stained glass
An aerial panoramic view of a Dutch town featuring a prominent castle with a conical-roofed tower and a square keep situated in a wooded park area, with the town's red-roofed buildings and surrounding flat countryside visible in the background.

Wijk Bij Duurstede · History & Heritage

Historic Farmhouses

17th-century farmhouses along the Rhine
A narrow cobblestone street lined with historic Dutch buildings and bicycles, leading toward a tall, ornate late-medieval brick church tower with a distinctive spire under a partly cloudy sky.

Amersfoort · History & Heritage

Onze Lieve Vrouwetoren

Third tallest medieval tower in the Netherlands
A tall medieval brick tower of a castle ruin stands behind a white wooden gazebo (music tent) on a grassy bank next to a moat, with autumn trees in the background.

Wijk Bij Duurstede · Castles

Kasteel Duurstede

Medieval brick fortress with intact Burgundian tower