A loop through the north-east of the old centre, past a square where heretics were burned and a theatre the occupier used for itself.
A loop past the things thousands of people walk by every day without knowing what they are, from a stone on a chain to the treaty that redrew the map of Europe.
Nine people from Utrecht who all refused to do what was expected of them, from the woman who began tearing down an emperor's castle to the student who shot the chief of police dead.
A walk along the water Utrecht dug for itself, from a stone kept on a chain to a poem that will not be finished until around 2080.
From the Roman fort beneath Dom Square to the liberation on the Vredenburg: a thousand years of Utrecht on foot, past a cathedral that was never finished and a castle the city pulled down with its own hands.
A relaxed walk through Utrecht’s Museum Quarter and on to Ledig Erf. You’ll pass quiet canals, old houses, and local cafés that show the city’s everyday charm. This route starts and ends at the same location.
A walk through the quarter where the headquarters of the Dutch national socialist movement and the press that printed the illegal papers stood in the same street.
The city crane stood here for 437 years and gave way under the fourth English lady.
The first department store in the Netherlands, and a jingle that outlived the shop by a century.
A sculptor hidden as a baby, who survived tuberculosis twice and ended up restoring Utrecht.
Fifty diplomats, two years of talks, and a treaty that redrew the map of Europe.
Six private houses the city swallowed one by one.
A Utrecht cookbook from 1754, written for the staff rather than the cook.
A medieval house on the Ganzenmarkt, named after the mattress factory inside it.
Self-playing music in the church where a woman had herself walled in.
A marsh that became a jousting ground, then an execution site, and is now full of terraces.
The facade is from 1967, the walls behind it are nearly seven hundred and fifty years old.
The oldest market in the city sits on a square that is really a bridge.
Behind a gate on the Vismarkt lies the spot where Utrecht became a city.
Built in stone in 1276, when everyone else was still building in wood.
A hundred and twelve metres, sixty years of building, and since 1674 it stands apart from its church.
A bookshop older than the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Under Dom Square lies the Roman fort the city owes its name to.
Wealthy residents built houses with battlements and a stair tower, and many still stand.
A blind bell-ringer played here on summer evenings, and the world still plays it.
The twin of the Pieterskerk, and the northern point of the church cross.
For centuries this city was governed by bakers, shoemakers and smiths.
Three hundred years of building, and the most important part stood there unsupported.
He came to convert a people who had not asked for it.
He wrote the treaty that made the Netherlands and then walked away.