Village in Gelderland, Netherlands
Alverna
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.
How locals move
Getting around Alverna the local way
- Get inRavenstein has a marina along the Maasdijk, located by the ferry crossing between Ravenstein and Niftrik.
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