Nijmegen

Worth seeing in and around Nijmegen

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
   Radboud University

   Radboud University is a public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students.

   3.1 km · public research university in Nijmegen, Netherlands · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Stadion de Goffert

   The Goffertstadion, formerly known as McDOS Goffertstadion for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Nijmegen, Netherlands, located in the Goffertpark. It is home to the football club NEC. The stadium was opened on 8 July 1939 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

   3.3 km · football stadium in Nijmegen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Maas–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.

   9.8 km · canal · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Duivelsberg

   Duivelsberg is a hill and nature reserve in the municipality of Berg en Dal in the Dutch province of Gelderland, near the border with Germany. It is politically significant, however, because Duivelsberg is the only part of the territory annexed from Germany after World War II that the Netherlands has retained to the present day.

   6.3 km · mountain in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Wereldmuseum Berg en Dal

   The Africa Museum was a museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands. The museum on the outskirts of the city of Nijmegen was a complex with indoor as well as open-air display areas, covering art, culture, music, photographs, videos and architecture of Africa.

   5.1 km · museum in Berg en Dal, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Velorama

   The Velorama is the only bicycle museum in the Netherlands. It is located along the Waal River in the city of Nijmegen.

   500 m · museum in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Museum Het Valkhof

   The Valkhof Museum is an archaeology and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands. The museum has existed since 1999, created as a merger between the G. M. Kam museum of archaeology and the Commanderie van St.

   600 m · archeological and art museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Kronenburger park

   The Kronenburgerpark is a park in the center of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It is close to the Central Railway Station and the Lange Hezelstraat.

   400 m · The Kronenburger park in Nijmegen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
9. 09
   HAN University of Applied Sciences

   The HAN University of Applied Sciences, mostly referred to as HAN, is one of the largest universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. It offers bachelor's and master's degree programs to over 35,000 students.

   2.4 km · vocational university of applied sciences in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery

    Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial is a Second World War Commonwealth War Graves Commission military war grave cemetery, located in the village of Groesbeek, 8 km southeast of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Of the total 2,619 burials, the cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers.

    7.3 km · World War II cemetery in the Netherlands · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Nijmegen is widely considered to be the oldest city in the Netherlands, celebrating her 2000th birthday in 2005. Not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about 5 months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60s and 70s who finished what the…

1. 01
   Valkhof Museum

   Kelfkensbos 59 (On the edge of the Valkhof park),.

2. 02
   St. Stevenskerk, Sint Stevenskerkhof

   The construction of the church began around the middle of the 13th century.

3. 03
   Nationaal Fietsmuseum Velorama
4. 04
   Aunt Hannie Movie and TV
5. 05
   Africa Museum

   Indoor as well as open-air display areas covering art, culture, music, photographs, videos and architecture of Africa.

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Things to do

1. 01
   Gebroeders van Lymborchfestival

   Medieval music and theatre festival in which around 700 re-enactors roam the streets of the city centre, displaying the daily life in the Duchy of Guelders from 1350-1450.

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Where to eat

If you love pizza, you'll find yourself well-catered for. Many pizza-restaurants are specialized in take-away/delivery, but there are several nice options if you'd like to sit down. Most of the establishments also offer other Italian dishes. Being a student town (roughly 21,000 students in a population of 160,000) there are plenty of relatively cheap restaurants ("eetcafés") to be found.

1. 01
   Dromaai

   Plein 1944, info@dedromaai.nl.

2. 02
   De Klinker

   Political café and organic, vegan eatery.

3. 03
   Broodje Horeca

   Mariënburgsestraat 10,.

4. 04
   Chidóz

   Molenstraat 112.

5. 05
   Zorba Streetfood Nijmegen

   Van Welderenstraat 130.

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Getting to Nijmegen

Airports

Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 33 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 56 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 88 km

Stations

Nijmegen railway station, 800 m · Nijmegen Heyendaal railway station, 2.4 km · Elst railway station, 7.7 km · Nijmegen Dukenburg railway station, 5.4 km · Mook-Molenhoek railway station, 9.3 km

• Eindhoven → Nijmegen

  52 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €7–9
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• Amsterdam → Nijmegen

  88 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €11–16
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• Rotterdam → Nijmegen

  95 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €11–15
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