Vianen Travel Guide

 OlafS Says:  The Stedelijk Museum (town museum) is housed in a beautiful white old house on the main street. Well, it looks like a house. Part of it is in fact a former catholic hidden church, founded here in the 17th century when catholics were officially second-class citizens. The... 

 OlafS Says:  The Grote Kerk, or Great Church, was built as a catholic church in the 15th century but has been protestant for almost 450 years now. The tower has a gate underneath which runs paralel to the road, square on which is the entrance to the church. See the picture to understand... 

 OlafS Says:  Lekpoort is the name of this gate which gave access to the town from the direction of the river Lek. It dates from the 15th century and was part of the town's original fortifications. On the other side of the town a part of the wall remains.On the introduction page you can... 

 OlafS Says:  This gate now gives access to a neighbourhood with small old houses, but it used to belong to castle Batestein, of which only this gate and some fragments of wall remain. From this place Vianen was ruled as an independent country for several centuries. 

 OlafS Says:  The Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, or Church of Our Lady in English, is a three-aisled hall-church designed by Alfred Tepe, a famous and extremely productive architect of churches in The Netherlands the 19th century. It's a rather simple-looking building but nice for a quick look. 

 OlafS Says:  The old town hall is a nice Gothic building. The battlements on top are recent reconstructions but as a whole the building is well preserved.