Riverside Town

Brewery church

The newest district to be absorbed into the city of Amsterdam in 2022, Weesp is technically part of the city but still makes for a fabulous day trip. This quaint riverside town in the heart of the Vechtstreek is famed for its historic buildings (look out for the town’s oldest building, Laurens Church) and influence on the chocolate industry. One of the Netherlands’ 14 fortress towns, Weesp dates back to the 14th century and – as you’d expect – features many fortifications and battlements. Old gates and city walls disappeared over the centuries, but the four bastions still exist. Weesp was part of the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a 135-kilometre-long fortification around Amsterdam. The Ossenmarkt and Uitermeer forts, part of that defence line, are still there. Uitermeer is now a pavilion with good food and drinks, and o ers the possibility to moor your boat. Weesp’s former town hall – a stately, neoclassical building – now houses the municipal Museum Weesp, devoted mainly to 18th-century porcelain crafts.

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Time to cool o ? Grab a cone of the best ice cream in Weesp – even voted the best ice cream in the Netherlands in 2020 – at Nelis’ IJssalon NELISIJSSALON.NL

Museum Weesp

The top oor of Weesp’s monumental former town hall, one of the 100 most important monuments in the Netherlands, houses Museum Weesp. The collections will take you on a journey through the stories of the city and its inhabitants, from the earliest Iron Age settlement to the present day. Admire the rst porcelain in the Netherlands (Weesper Porcelain), learn all about chocolate and discover why the Weesper jenever was a favourite of the Dutch East India Company.

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City of Wesopa

Thanks to its striking Amsterdam School architecture, the City of Wesopa is hard to miss. This cinema-theatre is primarily run by volunteers, who keep the historic character and function of the building alive. You’ll nd the agenda loaded up with language-no-problem music nights, lms and plays for young and old.

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