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Photo: Roger Veringmeier, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kleve's main landmark was begun in the 11th century as a spur castle, but later transformed into a more comfortable and representative Baroque residence. Its most characteristic item is a weather vane in form of a swan (heraldic animal and crest of the Dukes of Cleves), hence the name. It houses the Kleve district court, a geological museum, showing mineralogical and paleontologic exhibits from the Lower Rhine area, as well as a photo exposition.
The Schwanenburg Castle, in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the Dukes of Cleves resided, was founded on a steep hill. It is located at the northern terminus of the Kermisdahl where it joins with the Spoykanal, which was previously an important transportation link to the Rhine.
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Church of the Assumption of Mary
Kleve's Gothic, three-aisled main parish church.
St Mary of the Immaculate Conception
Very modest Gothic hall church without a steeple, that used to be the monastic church of a Minorites monastery.
Trinity Church
Small Lutheran church in the predominantly Catholic town, consecrated in 1621.
Collection of paintings by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, who used to live in this house with his family, as well as other Dutch romantic artists of his circle.
"forest garden"