This building was built between 1918 and 1924 in the Amsterdam school style. Its extraordinary vault is made up of bands of yellow enamelled bricks and glass. The impressive black statues symbolise the five continents, Commerce and Prosperity, and ..

Only the brick Romanesque cloister from this 11C church remains. It is one of the four churches of the Cross of Bernold, destroyed in the 19C.

This house from 1619 has a charming mannerist façade with a stepped gable and above the ground floor bears the coats of arms of Nijmegen and Portugal on either side of a man. The old meat hall ( Grote Vleeshuis ) opposite dates from 1637. On its faça..

This line of low houses is a part of a hospice from 1621 and is very picturesque,. The main entrance has a Baroque doorway. The Leeuwenberchkerk church (1567) once formed part of an isolation ward for plague sufferers.

This pretty water castle from 1895, the oldest in the town, is still operational and contains a museum tracing the history of the supply of drinking water as well as its cleaning and pumping. There is a attractive view over the town.

This museum is dedicated to the culture and history of the Moluccan people from the war with Japan until their arrival in the Netherlands in 1951. You can see the reconstruction of a room from an establishment where the Moluccan military and their fa..

Life in Utrecht is concentrated mainly on this square which links the old town and the new districts. It was here that the old fortress of Charles V used to stand. A music centre ( Muziekcentrum ) has been here since 1978, an original design by Herzb..

This impressive Baroque façade belongs to the foundation built in 1756 as a school for orphans. Turning around, you will see on the left an attractive collection of low brick houses belonging to a hospice ( Kameren Maria van Pallaes ) founded in 1651..

Built at the end of the 19C in the neo-Renaissance style, the university encompasses the old capitulary room of the cathedral ( kapittelzaal, 1409) and a large modern amphitheatre ( Aula ). It was here that the Union of Utrecht was signed on January..