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2012 - Utrecht befriends the city of Portland, Oregon, USA. [29] 2013 - Population: 321,916 municipality. [25] 2014 TivoliVredenburg concert hall opens. Jan van Zanen becomes mayor. 2015 - July: 2015 Tour de France cycling race starts from Utrecht. 2017 May: Basic income pilot to begin. [30] August: Bicycle parking garage opens. [31]
Willem Blaeu's 1652 map of Utrecht. Although there is some evidence of earlier inhabitation in the region of Utrecht, dating back to the Stone Age (app. 2200 BCE) and settling in the Bronze Age (app. 1800–800 BCE), [11] the founding date of the city is usually related to the construction of a Roman fortification (), probably built in around 50 CE.
The origin of the town of Oudewater is obscure and no information has been found concerning the first settlement of citizens. It is also difficult to recover the name of Oudewater. One explanation is that the name is a corruption of old water-meadow. Oudewater was an important border city between Holland and Utrecht. Oudewater (lit.
The city wall remains intact. The tiny town is entirely surrounded by an earth rampart featuring six bastions and a false bray in front of the curtain walls. The town hall is built over a canal running through the center of town and defends a system of locks with which the land surrounding the fortress could be inundated. Nijmegen: Gelderland
Sports venues in Utrecht (city) (3 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Utrecht (city)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Initially, the collection - exhibited on the top floor of the Utrecht town hall - was limited to art related to the city of Utrecht. In 1921 the collection merged with various private collections in the new 'centralised museum' (hence the name 'Centraal museum', centraal being the Dutch word for central) located in the former medieval monastery at the Nicolaaskerkhof.
Union of Utrecht; Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic) Utrecht Guild of Saint Luke; Utrecht sodomy trials; Utrecht tram shooting; Utrecht war (1456–1458) Utrecht war of 1481–83; Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht; Siege of Utrecht (1483) Peace of Utrecht
Duitse Huis is just above the bastion protruding from the center of the city wall towards the foot of the map. The Duitse Huis (English: Teutonic House) is a complex of buildings in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, protected as a national monument. The older parts date to a monastery of the Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Knights founded ...