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Boschpoort

Boschpoort is a neighbourhood of Maastricht in the Dutch province of Limburg.

Boschpoort
Boschpoort · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Boschpoort is a neighbourhood of Maastricht in the Dutch province of Limburg. The suburb is situated in the North Western area of the town, on the West bank of the river Meuse. The Dörp as it is colloquially known is home to approximately 1500 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boschpoort

10 places 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.

  1. 01
    Maastricht University

    Maastricht University is a public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the fourteen Dutch universities.

    1.8 km · public university in Maastricht · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Basilica of Saint Servatius

    The Basilica of Saint Servatius is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Servatius, in the center of Maastricht, Netherlands. The architecturally hybrid but mainly Romanesque church is situated next to the Gothic Church of Saint John, backing onto the town's main square, Vrijthof.

    1.6 km · church in Maastricht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bonnefanten Museum

    The Bonnefanten Museum is a museum of historic, modern and contemporary art in Maastricht, Netherlands.

    2.5 km · museum in Maastricht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Basilica of Our Lady

    The Basilica of Our Lady is a Romanesque church in the historic center of Maastricht, Netherlands. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Diocese of Roermond.

    1.7 km · church in Maastricht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Zuid-Willemsvaart

    The Zuid-Willemsvaart is a canal in the south of the Netherlands and the east of Belgium.

    600 m · canal in the Netherlands and Belgium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Juliana Canal

    The Juliana Canal, named after Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, is a 36 km long canal in the southern Netherlands, providing a bypass of an unnavigable section of the river Meuse between Maastricht and Maasbracht. It is an important transport connection between the ports of the Rhine delta and the industrial areas of southern Limburg and southern Belgium.

    1 km · 36 km long canal in the southern Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Sint-Janskerk

    The Sint-Janskerk is a Gothic church in the center of Maastricht, Netherlands. The Protestant Sint-Jan is situated next to the Roman Catholic Basilica of Saint Servatius on the town's main square, Vrijthof.

    1.6 km · church in Maastricht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    De Geusselt

    Stadion de Geusselt is a multi-use stadium in Maastricht, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of MVV Maastricht.

    2.1 km · football stadium in Maastricht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    University College Maastricht

    University College Maastricht is an English language, internationally oriented, liberal arts and sciences college housed in the 15th century Nieuwenhof monastery in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 2002, it is the second of its kind in the Netherlands.

    2.1 km · university college in Maastricht, the Netherlands, part of Maastricht University · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Maastricht City Hall

    The Stadhuis is the historic town hall in the centre of Maastricht in the Netherlands. It is sited on the Markt square, an open-air marketplace.

    1.3 km · town hall in Maastricht, Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Boschpoort

Airports
Maastricht Aachen (MST), 8 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 69 km · Brussels (BRU), 85 km
Stations
Maastricht railway station, 1.9 km · Maastricht Randwyck railway station, 3.4 km · Maastricht Noord railway station, 2.2 km
  • Eindhoven → Boschpoort
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · €9–12
  • Rotterdam → Boschpoort
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €21–29
  • Amsterdam → Boschpoort
    177 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · €21–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boschpoort

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 Boschpoort. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPrivate taxi and minibus transfers are available at [http://www.maastrichttransfer.com].

From Wikivoyage: Maastricht, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    272 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    492 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    559 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    725 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    739 km

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