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what's on within a walk

Markets, exhibitions, concerts, walking routes and parks near you, in the order you would reach them on foot.

From Utrecht Centraal to the Saturday market on the Vredenburg, a 6-minute walk.

This weekend within a 15-minute walk

From Utrecht Centraal. These six are an example of a weekend in October, shown while the first listings come in.

  1. Mahler's Fifth by the USConcert orchestra

    Concert · TivoliVredenburg, Grote Zaal

    Saturday 20:15, from € 14

    Student orchestra of 110 players. Introduction in the foyer at 19:30.

    5 min walk

  2. Vredenburg market

    Market · Vredenburg

    Saturday 8:00–17:00

    About 120 stalls: cheese, fish, fabric by the metre, flowers and bread.

    6 min walk

  3. Museum Speelklok

    Museum · Steenweg 6

    Saturday and Sunday 10:00–17:00, organ at 12:00 and 15:00

    Street organs and music boxes in the Buurkerk. Demonstrations twice a day.

    10 min walk

  4. Climb the Dom Tower

    Landmark · Domplein 9

    Tours on the hour, 10:00–16:00, € 13

    465 steps to the top, guided climbs only, about an hour.

    10 min walk

  5. The wharf cellars, Weesbrug to Bakkerbrug

    Walking route · starts at the Weesbrug

    Any time, 1.2 km at the waterline

    Steps down to the wharf at the Weesbrug; the cellars along the water are cafés and workshops now.

    11 min walk

  6. Flower and plant market

    Market · Janskerkhof

    Saturday 7:30–17:00

    Bulbs, cut flowers and house plants, about forty stalls.

    13 min walk

A canal with two floors

The Oudegracht runs a storey below the street. At the waterline is the wharf, and behind it the cellars that merchants dug into the bank in the thirteenth century to take goods straight off the boats.

Many are cafés and workshops now. On a dry morning the wharf is the quietest way from the Weesbrug to the Bakkerbrug, eleven minutes from the station.

Photograph to come. The wharf below the Weesbrug at nine in the morning, taken from the water's edge: cellar doors on the left, the street a storey above.

How it works

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Distance is counted in minutes on foot along streets and over bridges, so a canal without a bridge nearby counts as the detour it is.

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