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City in North Brabant, Netherlands
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Tilburg is a large city in southern Netherlands. It started to grow during the Industrial Revolution, when wool factories were set up, thus making it the wool city of the Netherlands. Because wool was treated with urine during processing, employees had to bring along a full bottle to work every morning. This gave the Tilburgers their nickname of Kruikezeikers. Tilburg has about 215,000 inhabitants (2017).
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Paleis-Raadhuis Tilburg
It was built in 1847 as a royal residence for Kind William II. The royal family donated it later to the city to house a secular school for the middle class, founded in 1866. One of the early students was Vincent Van Gogh, later recognized as a brilliant painter. The school moved out to new facilities in 1934, when the city decided to refurbish it for use as a city hall. A new, much larger city hall building opened later in 1971 right behind the palace, and the historic building is now used for official ceremonies, including weddings
The oldest former army base for the Dutch cavalry to have survived. It's a fine example of the historic and industrial heritage in Tilburg, as these barracks were later used for two large wool- and leather factories. Today, it houses a part of the city archives.
The largest wildlife zoo of the Benelux.
Nederlands Textielmuseum
Exhibition of textile machinery and industry.
End of May
Tilburgse kermis
The largest funfair of the Benelux, which is held in July for ten days.
Cinecitta is an arthouse cinema, with arthouse movies, documentaries and is cosy, has no pauses and in a historical building.
Euroscoop is a large cinema in the south of Tilburg, with twelve halls of cinema with many Hollywood movies, has large seats, pauses and automatic ticket sales.
Pathé is also a large cinema, but is in the city centre, in opposition to Euroscoop. It has 7 halls, large seats, no pauses and online reservation.
A nature reserve with forest, heathland and stream valleys located between Boxtel and Oisterwijk. The Kampina is a popular hiking area, especially when the heather blooms. There are several hiking trails.
There are Taco Bell branches in just a few European countries. Here you can enjoy the Tex-Mex cuisine.
Cafeteria
Turkish.
Asian.
Hot dogs
One of the best sushi places around, serving grilled Japanese dishes too. Lunch around €23. Diner around €38.
The obession of this restaurant is to make the food by themselves including the bread, cheese and vegetables. During lobster season there is lobster. During truffle season there is truffle.
In a residential area, this historic English style mansion offers fine dining and has a lovely outdoor terrace in summer. When eating indoors, ask for a table in the "jachtkamer" ("hunting hall"). The set Menu Hofstede De Blaak is excellent value for money, but you can eat à la carte too. Call ahead.
This place has a modern style and spacious rooms. Take into account that in the morning you'll likely be woken by the church bells.
This place is almost in the forest. There's a good breakfast and the restaurant serves gourmet cuisine, but it's not cheap.
This "Inn" has group rooms for up to 6 people as well as fairly small but cosy singles/doubles. There's no real breakfast, but they provide some free sandwiches, fruit and juice in the morning, if you don't want to eat somewhere else.
By car
Tilburg is connected by highway only from Breda (with Belgium, Rotterdam-The Hague) and Eindhoven (Limburg, Ardennes, Rhine-Ruhr).), which is not recommended for travelling fast and safe.
By bus
Flixbus serves the city. Breda and Eindhoven may have more intercity bus connections, both of them can be reached by train.
By boat
No scheduled ferries come along the Wilhelminakanaal, but if you have a private boat, you can reach it from Eindhoven and the Meuse on the Wilhelminakanaal.
Tilburg has three railway stations, and around ten city bus lines, going through all of the city, so every neighborhood is connected easily with the city centre.
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