Walking route 11 fountains: Bolsward

2.7 km


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About the city walk
If you drive to Bolsward from the provincial capital of Leeuwarden, you will be treated to a beautiful green route, passing villages, meadows and historic windmills. A lovely appetizer before exploring the city. Bolsward is a historic city, with cosy canals and unique churches. The city was founded on three terps, one of which even predates the Christian era. You will find a mishmash of centuries-old façades in different styles, a shopping street along the canal and a town hall that is a work of art in itself. This sixty-minute walk takes you along some of the highlights of Bolsward.

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About the fountain
Bats are intriguing, usefu…

About the city walk
If you drive to Bolsward from the provincial capital of Leeuwarden, you will be treated to a beautiful green route, passing villages, meadows and historic windmills. A lovely appetizer before exploring the city. Bolsward is a historic city, with cosy canals and unique churches. The city was founded on three terps, one of which even predates the Christian era. You will find a mishmash of centuries-old façades in different styles, a shopping street along the canal and a town hall that is a work of art in itself. This sixty-minute walk takes you along some of the highlights of Bolsward.

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View the route in Google Maps

About the fountain
Bats are intriguing, useful animals that play a crucial role in the ecosystem by preying on insects. In Asian culture, bats symbolise wealth, luck and a blessed old age. Here in the West, they represent both dark forces and a positive, saving force. Take Batman, for example, or the façades of the great cathedrals where bats, in the form of gargoyles, keep demons at bay. Which is wonderfully appropriate to this old, fire-damaged church, the Broerekerk. The stairs on the bat’s back invite visitors to symbolically conquer the bat. And in doing so, to transcend themselves.

Sights on this route

11Fountains Bolsward

Bats are intriguing, useful animals, crucial to the ecological system for their insect hunting. In Asian culture, the bat symbolises wealth, happiness and the blessings of old age.

11Fountains Bolsward

Broerekerk Bolsward

De Broerekerk werd in de 13de eeuw gebouwd als kloosterkerk van de Minderbroeders. Het klooster werd in 1580 verlaten en afgebroken. De driebeukige kerk zonder toren is een ruïne als gevolg van een brand die plaatsvond op 8 mei 1980.

Broerekerk Bolsward

Martinikerk Bolsward

De Martinikerk in Bolsward is een gotisch kerkgebouw. Met het forse zadeldaktoren domineert de Martinikerk al eeuwenlang het silhouet van de stad Bolsward.

Martinikerk Bolsward

Sonnema Beerenburg

Bij Sonnema maken we met trots en passie Sonnema Berenburg volgens dezelfde geheime receptuur als Fedde Sonnema in 1860.

Sonnema Beerenburg

Stadhuis Bolsward

Het stadhuis in Bolsward is één van de mooiste pareltjes van Friesland. Het rijkversierde stadhuis is van 1614 tot 1617 gebouwd en ontworpen door Jacob Gysbert (vader van Gysbert Japicx).

Stadhuis Bolsward

11Fountains Bolsward

Bats are intriguing, useful animals, crucial to the ecological system for their insect hunting. In Asian culture, the bat symbolises wealth, happiness and the blessings of old age.

11Fountains Bolsward

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