Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Eindhoven, Netherlands
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6.7 km
53 m
Explore Eindhoven in Netherlands with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in EindhovenIndividual Sights in EindhovenSight 1: Sint-Lambertuskerk
St. Lambert's Church is a Roman Catholic church at Hoogstraat 299 in Eindhoven, named after Saint Lambert of Maastricht. It is a neo-Gothic cruciform basilica that was built in 1910-1911 to a design by Wolter te Riele from 1909. The church and the adjacent detached presbytery are both on the Dutch list of national monuments.
Sight 2: Adventskerk
The Adventskerk is a Protestant church building at Camphuysenstraat 4 in the Schrijversbuurt which is part of the Eindhoven district of Gestel.
Sight 3: Heilig Hartkerk
The Heilig Hartkerk is a former Roman Catholic church in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The church building was designed by architects Dom Paul Bellot and Hendrik Christiaan van de Leur, who also designed the adjacent presbytery.
Sight 4: van Abbe Museum
The Van Abbemuseum is a museum of modern and contemporary art in central Eindhoven, Netherlands, on the east bank of the Dommel River. Established in 1936, the museum is named after its founder, the cigar businessman Henri van Abbe, who loved modern art and wanted his collection to be enjoyed in Eindhoven. As of 2010, the collection of the museum housed more than 2700 works of art, of which about 1000 were on paper, 700 were paintings, and 1000 were sculptures, installations and video works.
Sight 5: Sint-Catharinakerk
St. Catherine's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city center of the Dutch city of Eindhoven, dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria. The church is located at Catharinaplein 1, at the beginning of Stratumseind and was built as a replacement for the dilapidated medieval St. Catherine's Church.
Sight 6: Augustijnenkerk
The Augustijnenkerk, also known as Paterskerk and R.C. Heilig Hartkerk, is a church building at Tramstraat 37 in the Dutch city of Eindhoven. The church was built at the end of the nineteenth century for the Augustinian monks of the adjacent Mariënhage Monastery. The church was their property until December 2017; Since then, funeral insurer and funeral director DELA has been the owner of the entire Mariënhage complex. The church is a national monument.
Sight 7: Sint-Antoniuskerk
The Steentjeskerk, officially Church of Saint Anthony of Padua and Our Lady Immaculate Conception, is a church building from 1919 on the St. Antoniusstraat in the Strijp district of the municipality of Eindhoven. The church is called Steentjeskerk because of its facades, which are built in a striking pattern of Kunrader stone. It was built for the parish of Saint Anthony of Padua in the former municipality of Strijp.
Sight 8: DAF Museum
The DAF Museum is a museum in Eindhoven that focuses on the history of Van Doorne's Automobile Factory, or DAF for short. It is located in the Eindhoven district of Tongelre.
Sight 9: Sint-Joriskerk
St. George's Church is a church building from 1884 with the status of a national monument. It was built in neo-Gothic style and is located on Sint-Jorislaan in Stratum.
Sight 10: PreHistorisch Dorp
The preHistorisch Dorp in Genneper Parken in Eindhoven is a historical open-air museum that is part of Eindhoven Museum. The museum shows 6 different eras through archaeological reconstructions of buildings and living history: the time of hunters and gatherers, the time of the first farmers, the indigenous-Roman era, the time of the Vikings and Franks, the time of trade and cities and the Eighty Years' War.
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