Naarden Heritage Walk: The Perfect Star
58 min
2.9 km
10 stops
About this tour
Naarden was levelled in 1572 and rebuilt as Europe's most perfect star fortress, and that very perfection froze it in time. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
10 guided stops on this route
Utrechtse Poort
The original city gate dates from 1680, built as one of only two access points to the fortress alongside the since-demolished Amsterdamse Poort. The current ga…
Dutch Fortress Museum
Bastion Turfpoort is one of six bastions forming Naarden's star, the others are Oud Molen, Katten, Oranje, Promers, and Nieuw Molen, each named after a local f…
Spaanse Huis
The massacre took place on 1 December 1572. Spanish troops under Julian Romero killed approximately 700 townspeople who had assembled under the pretence of hea…
Stadhuis
The town hall was completed in 1601, the most visible symbol of Naarden's reconstruction after the Spanish devastation of 1572. Built in Dutch Renaissance styl…
Grote Kerk
The 22 painted vault panels (1509–1518) cover approximately 700 m², the largest and best-preserved cycle of barrel-vault paintings in the northern Netherlands,…
Comenius Mausoleum
Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670) was a Moravian theologian and philosopher widely credited with developing the graded school system, separate classes for differen…
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GPS-guided walking route
Interactive quizzes at each stop
Fascinating stories and facts
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