Bergen op Zoom City guides
With just as many monuments as years in history – more than 800! – Bergen op Zoom is a city with surprising stories and great secrets. Wander through narrow streets, across old squares and past unique monuments and (re)experience the glorious and moving past of the city.
With just as many monuments as years in history – more than 800! – Bergen op Zoom is a city with surprising stories and great secrets. Wander through narrow streets, across old squares and past unique monuments and (re)experience the glorious and moving past of the city. Walk over the fortifications and allow a guide to elaborate on the Eighty Years’ War. Or learn all there is to know about the religious and military history of this gem on the Zeeland border, still unknown to many.
Accessible monuments
In the summer season, the five most important monuments of the city can in any case be visited. Do check for wheelchair accessibility on the website of Bergen op Zoom City guides, since unfortunately, not all monuments are bungalows. Children are permitted to enter everywhere: there are even special children’s tours, where they are given the bare facts of the rich city history. With the Markiezenhof, the Moses bridge, the Prison Gate, the Maagd theatre, city hall, the Peperbus …
With just as many monuments as years in history – more than 800! – Bergen op Zoom is a city with surprising stories and great secrets. Wander through narrow streets, across old squares and past unique monuments and (re)experience the glorious and moving past of the city. Walk over the fortifications and allow a guide to elaborate on the Eighty Years’ War. Or learn all there is to know about the religious and military history of this gem on the Zeeland border, still unknown to many.
Accessible monuments
In the summer season, the five most important monuments of the city can in any case be visited. Do check for wheelchair accessibility on the website of Bergen op Zoom City guides, since unfortunately, not all monuments are bungalows. Children are permitted to enter everywhere: there are even special children’s tours, where they are given the bare facts of the rich city history. With the Markiezenhof, the Moses bridge, the Prison Gate, the Maagd theatre, city hall, the Peperbus (or the pepper plant towers), the synagogue and the St. Gertrudiskerk, it is easy to fill your day with revealing surprises and historic monuments. In the words of an enthusiastic visitor: “Amazing, beautiful monuments, very nice to join a city walk, such great stories were told in the Gevangenpoort (Prison Gate).”
Something for everyone
The special children’s tours obviously attract mainly families, young families or grandparents with grandchildren. But there are also couples, seniors and singles who are amazed, as attested to by the entry below: “It’s amazing what you can find in Bergen op Zoom, very unusual to find the cultural treasures that are here.”
The multilingual guided tours mean that international guests can also learn all about the city’s history of more than 800 years. The guided tour that focuses on the 80th anniversary of liberation is very popular with foreign visitors. However, you may get to know the city best during a themed tour, such as the Shrove Tuesday guided tour.