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Municipality in Utrecht, Netherlands
Photo: Frans Berkelaar, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Wijk bij Duurstede is a town in Utrecht. It is a typically old Dutch town on the Crooked Rhine River. Dikes galore. Subject of Old Master Jakob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael's 1670 iconic Dutch landscape painting.
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Duurstede Castle
The Dorestad museum features many relics from the ninth century in relation to the many Viking raids on Dorestad.
The Runmolenpoort and the windmill it has been named after, is a windmill on top of one of the city gates, making it the only drive-through windmill of the world.
By public transit
The nearest train station to Wijk bij Duurstede is Driebergen-Zeist on the Utrecht—Arnhem intercity line (the station is serviced by Intercity and Sprinter trains).
By bike
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