Zutphen Discovery Tour: Tower City, Chained Books, and the Berkel
135 min
2.1 km
9 stops
About this tour
Zutphen is small in size but big in stories: a water gate that has stood in the Berkel for 700 years, a church with a library where books are literally chained, and an English poet-knight who gave his last words to a dying soldier. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
9 guided stops on this route
Groenmarkt (start)
Zutphen has been inhabited for over 1,700 years and is among the oldest towns in the Netherlands. As a Hanseatic town on the IJssel it was part of a trade netw…
Berkelpoort
The Berkel flows from Germany to the IJssel and enters the town at the Berkelpoort. It is a national monument and one of the best-preserved medieval water gate…
IJsselkade
Sir Philip Sidney was wounded at Zutphen and died 26 days later, still young. He was a knight and one of the leading English poets of his day. Thousands attend…
Walburgiskerk
The Walburgiskerk tower once stood 107.5 m, until its spire was lost in 1600; that is why it now looks truncated. Inside are the Jerusalem chandelier and the e…
De Librije
De Librije is a chained library. The collection includes 87 incunabula, books printed before 1501, and work by Copernicus. You can read the books on the lecter…
's-Gravenhof
The county of Zutphen remained a separate unit within Guelders for centuries. The 's-Gravenhof has been an archaeological monument since 2003. Count Otto I gra…
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GPS-guided walking route
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