Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Maastricht, Netherlands

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 6.7 km
Ascend 119 m
Descend 82 m

Explore Maastricht 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 MaastrichtIndividual Sights in Maastricht

Sight 1: Huis Eyll

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Huis Eyll Lahaye / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Huis Eyll, also known as Croonenhof, is a castle-like country house in the Heer district of Maastricht. The largely 18th-century building has been a national monument since 1966, as has the associated Hoeve de Croon. Special in the interior are the stucco decorations by Petrus Nicolaas Gagini.

Wikipedia: Huis Eyll (NL)

828 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: De Burght

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De Burght is a medieval castle in the Dutch Limburg village of Heer, nowadays a neighborhood of the municipality of Maastricht.

Wikipedia: De Burght (Heer) (NL)

1556 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 3: Don Boscokerk

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The Don Bosco Church is a modern church building in the Dutch city of Maastricht, located at Kardinaal van Rossumplein 97 in the Heugemerveld neighborhood. The former Roman Catholic parish church has been in use as a Baptist church since 2017.

Wikipedia: Don Boscokerk (Maastricht) (NL)

1745 meters / 21 minutes

Sight 4: Sint-Petruskerk

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The Church of St. Peter Downstairs, officially St. Peter's Church, is a church building built in 1938-39 in the Dutch city of Maastricht, located on Sint Maternusstraat in the Villapark neighborhood. The building is used by the Roman Catholic parish of St. Peter, which has another parish church: the higher church of St. Peter's upstairs. The marlstone church was designed by the well-known architect Frits Peutz as an early Christian basilica and has been a national monument since 1993.

Wikipedia: Kerk van Sint-Pieter beneden (NL)

917 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Huis De Torentjes

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Huis De Torentjes is a partly 16th-century castle-like country house on the eastern flank of the Sint-Pietersberg in the former village of Sint Pieter, now part of the Dutch city of Maastricht.

Wikipedia: Huis de Torentjes (NL), Mapillary

55 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Kerk van de Allerheiligste Verlosser en H. Petrus

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The Church of St. Peter Upstairs, officially Church of the Most Holy Savior and St. Peter, also called St. Peter on the Mountain, is a Roman Catholic church built in 1875 in neo-Gothic style, located in the Maastricht district of St. Peter. The church is used by the parish of St. Peter, as is the church of St. Peter below. The church of St. Peter upstairs is a national monument.

Wikipedia: Kerk van Sint-Pieter boven (NL)

1611 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 7: Motte De Tombe

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The Tomb is an early medieval motte on the Sint-Pietersberg in the south of the Dutch municipality of Maastricht. The remnant of the motte is located along the Van Schaikweg on the west flank of the Sint-Pietersberg on the edge of the ENCI forest. To the west of the motte is the Quarry de Tombe and to the south of the motte is the ENCI forest.

Wikipedia: De Tombe (motte) (NL)

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