Alverna
Alverna is a village in the municipality of Wijchen in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.
Alverna is a village in the municipality of Wijchen in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. As of 2021, it had a population of 2,525. The village is named after the Alverna monastery founded there in 1887, which in turn is named after La Verna, the mountain in Tuscany where Francis of Assisi is said to have received the stigmata on 17 September 1224.
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Worth seeing in and around Alverna
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Maas–Waal Canal
The Maas–Waal Canal is a canal in the Netherlands that connects the river Meuse to the river Waal. The channel is about 13.5 kilometres long and runs from Weurt to the south and ends at Heumen.
3.7 km · canal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alverna
- Airports
- Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 34 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 47 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 89 km
- Stations
- Nijmegen Dukenburg railway station, 3.3 km · Wijchen railway station, 2.8 km
- Eindhoven → Alverna45 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · €5–8
- Amsterdam → Alverna87 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €12–16
- Rotterdam → Alverna89 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alverna
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alverna. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inRavenstein has a marina along the Maasdijk, located by the ferry crossing between Ravenstein and Niftrik.
From Wikivoyage: Ravenstein, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Alverna
Alverna is 55 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Wijchenmunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands3.2 km
- Nederasseltvillage in Heumen, Netherlands3.4 km