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Nijmegen
City and municipality in Gelderland, Netherlands

Nijmegen

Nijmegen is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole.

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Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands and the first to be recognized as such in Roman times. In 2005, it celebrated 2,000 years of existence.

Get in

Getting to Nijmegen

Airport Weeze (NRN IATA), located 45 km southeast of town just across the border with Germany, between the villages of Weeze (Germany) and Nieuw-Bergen (Netherlands) (the airport itself is in Germany). Although Ryanair (the major airline serving the airport) advertises it as Düsseldorf-Weeze, Düsseldorf is not anywhere near the airport.

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    Nijmegen
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    Intercity bus stop Nijmegen

    Nijmegen is connected to the German cities (and railway stations) of Kleve and Emmerich by the regional bus line SB58.

See

Worth seeing

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…

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    Valkhof Museum

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

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    St. Stevenskerk, Sint Stevenskerkhof

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

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    Nationaal Fietsmuseum Velorama
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    Aunt Hannie Movie and TV
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    Africa Museum

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

Do

Things to do

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    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.

Eat

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.

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    Dromaai

    Plein 1944, info@dedromaai.nl.

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    De Klinker

    Political café and organic, vegan eatery.

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    Broodje Horeca

    Mariënburgsestraat 10,.

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    Chidóz

    Molenstraat 112.

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    Zorba Streetfood Nijmegen

    Van Welderenstraat 130.

How locals move

Getting around Nijmegen the local way

  • Get inNijmegen is probably one of the easiest places in the Netherlands to hitch from.

From Wikivoyage: Nijmegen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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