Kleve
Kleve is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine.
Kleve is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century onwards, Cleves was capital of a county and later a duchy. Today, Cleves is the capital of the district of Kleve in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The city is home to one of the campuses of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.
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Worth seeing in and around Kleve
2 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.
- 01Schwanenburg
The Schwanenburg Castle, in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the Dukes of Cleves resided, was founded on a steep hill. It is located at the northern terminus of the Kermisdahl where it joins with the Spoykanal, which was previously an important transportation link to the Rhine.
400 m · castle in Kleve, Germany · Wikipedia - 02XOX-Theater Kleve
XOX-Theater Kleve is a theatre in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
700 m · theatre in Kleve, Germany · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Kleve stands out with its extensive parks and gardens, dating back to the Baroque era. They were created during the governorship of Johann Moritz of Nassau-Siegen by the Dutch landscape gardener Jacob van Campen, starting in 1647. At the era, they enjoyed Europe-wide fame and were used as a model for other famous parks, including the gardens of Potsdam. The most original part is the
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Things to do
- 01XOX-Theater
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Where to eat
- 01Akropolis
Gruftstrasse 26,.
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Getting to Kleve
- Airports
- Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 21 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 65 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 71 km
- Stations
- Kleve railway station, 400 m
- Düsseldorf → Kleve77 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · €10–14
- Dortmund → Kleve96 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €13–18
- Greven → Kleve366 km · quickest by road, 5h 57m · €45–65
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kleve
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 Kleve. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Kleve
Kleve is 59 km from Duisburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Nütterdenhuman settlement in Germany5.2 km
- Rindernhuman settlement in Germany2.6 km
- Donsbrüggenhuman settlement in Germany3.3 km