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tompt Says: Also on the same graveyard, a special area with some simple white crosses. These simple graves belong to the Paters HH Harten. The monastery of these fathers was located on the Cauberg opposite of the Lourdes Grot. There are plans to built social housing in the old monastery...
tompt Says: Maybe you are thinking graveyards are creepy but this one is really worth a visit. There are many beautiful graves, some made out of the local marlstone. There even is a national monument amongst the graves. This tomb and chapel from 1892 were designed by architect PJH...
tompt Says: On the other side of the road, a bit lower is the graveyard. They have a special part which is a dedicated jewish graveyard. At this jewish graveyard there is a memorial plaque for the jews from Valkenburg, who didn't return from the concentration camps after the war.
tompt Says: Along the Cauberg you will find the remembrance monument for all the Limburg victims of war from the resistance in 1940-45. The carillon plays at set hours the Limburgs anthem or the dutch anthem: the Wilhelmus.Inside the little chapel are two walls with names of the Limburg...
tompt Says: Treat yourself on a day out in the baths at the top of the Cauberg: Thermae 2000, a modern spa. The water comes from 3 springs. Two are located at a depth of 400 metres and provide thermal water for the indoor and outdoor baths. The third spring, at a depth of 80 metres,...
tompt Says: The Lourdes is a place to worship. It is an exact replica of the cave in Lourdes, France.In 1858 Mary appears before Bernadette in the Massiabielle rocks. The pastor of Valkenburg in 1901 wanted to built a Lourdes grot but couldn´t find a good place. His succesor pastor...
tompt Says: The Gemeentegrot (towncave) is one of the caves you can visit in Valkenburg. It is located at the bottom of the Cauberg. The caves were formed when marlstone was mined here. Today you can tour the caves and see the art that is made here over the years, not only by artists...
tompt Says: The Holland Casino at the top of the Cauberg is open every day from 13.30 to 03.00.The casino has over 325 machines and 30 tables.
Herberg/Auberge 't Vakwerkhuis: pitoresque house
tompt Says: The house has several rooms all with their own entrance, shower, toilet, TV, kitchen, fridge. Parking next to the house is free for guests.
tompt Says: My favorite thing is going downhill, like Tom did here. (Gonnie)But Toms favorite thing is climbing it. Preferably on his bicycle.And after this we both like to drink a beer on one of the many terasses on the foot of the Cauberg.
tompt Says: The Cauberg was the stage for the worst buscrash in dutch history. At 29 september 1954 19 people were killed when a bus came down the Cauberg out of control and crashed into a monument of marlstone at the Grendelplein. The monument was made by Cuypers and was to remember...
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The Holland Casino at the top of the Cauberg is open every day from 13.30 to 03.00.The casino has over 325 machines and 30 tables.
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The cyclists problem: the Cauberg
The most famous "mountain" (berg in dutch) in the Netherlands is probably the Cauberg. Not more than just a street in the centre of Valkenburg to some, but the most feared street to cyclists. The......
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