Arnhem
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26 places in Arnhem
Park Sonsbeek
Sonsbeek
An English landscape park rising against the moraine, with a waterfall, old beech trees, and a view of the city from the Belvedere.
Introdans
Centrum
The dance company based in Arnhem that performs its own shows here.
Park Zypendaal
Sonsbeek
The park next to Sonsbeek, with a country house, ponds, and a vegetable garden.
Rijnkade
Centrum
The quay along the Rhine, where Arnhem is finally doing something with its river.
Caspar Café Bistro Bar
Klarendal
On the ground floor of Hotel Modez in the Fashion Quarter, and for years the place where Klarendal enters.
Stella by Starlight
Centrum
A jazz café with a small bar and live music, where the music is more important than the interior.
Hijman Ongerijmd
Centrum
A multi-story bookstore with staff who read, right in the city center.
Willemeen
Centrum
A youth center with a stage that has been programming punk, hardcore, and everything loud for decades.
Beekstraat Arnhem
Centrum
The stream that lay beneath the city for centuries and was uncovered a few years ago, running straight through the city center.
Bar XO
Centrum
A large café on the Korenmarkt that is open from morning until late.
Modekwartier
Klarendal
A street full of studios and shops of designers who also work there: fashion, furniture, jewelry.
De Nieuwe Kantine
Klarendal
A neighborhood restaurant in Klarendal with a short menu and a large table where you sit with strangers.
Nederlands Openluchtmuseum
Schaarsbergen
An entire village of real, relocated buildings from five centuries of the Netherlands, with a tram line running through it.
Coehoornpark
Coehoorn
A piece of the city between the station and the center that has been taken over by makers and a neighborhood forest.
Posttheater
Centrum
A small theater in an old post office with cabaret, music, and theater in a hall where everyone has a comfortable seat.
Korenmarkt
Centrum
Arnhem's entertainment square, where the terraces lie side by side on all sides.
Rozet
Centrum
The library, the heritage center, and the art school under one roof, in a building with a staircase that runs up through the entire building.
Burgers' Zoo
Schaarsbergen
A zoo with indoor ecosystems: a tropical rainforest, a desert, a mangrove.
John Frostbrug
Centrum
The bridge from A Bridge Too Far, where the Battle of Arnhem was fought in September 1944.
Luxor Live
Centrum
Arnhem's music venue in an old cinema, with a hall that is large enough for a real concert and small enough to stand close to.
Eusebius
Centrum
The church, which was almost completely destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt, with a glass elevator in the tower and a viewing balcony with a glass floor.
Kröller-Müller Museum
Schaarsbergen
A museum in the middle of the forest with the second largest Van Gogh collection in the world and a twenty-five-hectare sculpture garden behind it.
Park Meinerswijk
Malburgen
A floodplain area on the south side of the Rhine, with wild horses, ponds, and the skyline of Arnhem behind it.
Museum Arnhem
Sonsbeek
The city museum on the moraine, with a new wing that juts over the edge of the slope like a ship and offers a view of the Rhine.
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