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Vilt

Vilt is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg, within the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul.

Vilt
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The place

Vilt is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg, within the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul. It is located on the top of the Cauberg.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vilt

7 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
    Cauberg

    The Cauberg is a hill in Valkenburg aan de Geul, a town in the South Limburg region of the Netherlands. The hill played an important role in the early development of tourism in Valkenburg.

    1 km · hill in Valkenburg aan de Geul, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Valkenburg Castle

    Valkenburg Castle is a ruined castle in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands. It is unique in the Netherlands in that it is the only castle in the Netherlands built on a hill.

    1.5 km · castle in Valkenburg, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Schaloen Castle

    Schaloen Castle is a castle in Oud-Valkenburg in the South Limburg municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul in The Netherlands. The castle is a national monument.

    2.8 km · main castle building in Oud-Valkenburg, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    De Valkenier

    De Valkenier was an amusement park in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands. The attractions focused mostly on families with children below the age of twelve.

    1.5 km · amusement park in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Heunsberg

    The Heunsberg is a 145 meter high hill in the South Limburg area of the Netherlands, part of the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul. The hill is located directly south of the center of Valkenburg and the hamlet of Neerhem.

    1.4 km · hill near Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hermitage at Schaelsberg

    The hermitage at Schaelsberg is a monumental hermitage in Schin op Geul, in the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands. Built in 1688 for the lords of nearby Schaloen Castle, the chapel and attached living space, housed a succession of 16 hermits from its foundation until 1930.

    3.2 km · building in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Château St. Gerlach

    Château St. Gerlach, formerly St.

    1.6 km · castle in Houthem, 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 Vilt

Airports
Maastricht Aachen (MST), 7 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 73 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 82 km
Stations
Valkenburg railway station, 2 km · Houthem-Sint Gerlach railway station, 2.1 km
  • Eindhoven → Vilt
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €9–13
  • Rotterdam → Vilt
    150 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · €22–31
  • Amsterdam → Vilt
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €21–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vilt

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundWhile that is more expensive for single journeys, it's a good option for day trips.
  • Get aroundSome of the smaller hamlets are served by minibuses, but they leave from the regular platforms at e.g.
  • Go nextThe German city of Aachen is just at the other side of the border and makes a great day trip.

From Wikivoyage: South Limburg, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-01.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    275 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    500 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    556 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    733 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    735 km

If you know how people move in Vilt – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Vilt

  • Valkenburg aan de Geulmunicipality in Limburg, the Netherlands1.6 km
  • Bemelenvillage in Eijsden-Margraten, Netherlands3.5 km
  • Houthemvillage in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands2.1 km
  • Bergvillage in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands2 km
  • Geulhemhamlet in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands2.3 km
  • Sibbevillage in Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands1.9 km