{"id":28598,"date":"2018-02-01T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/?p=28598"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:45:19","slug":"5-times-surprisingly-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/blog\/5-keer-verrassend-dichtbij\/","title":{"rendered":"5 times surprisingly close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Many beautiful Belgian and German cities are surprisingly close by. We have listed the most beautiful cities within a one-and-a-half-hour drive from Maastricht for you. <\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Li\u00e8ge \u2013 32 min<\/h2>\n<p>A thirty-minute drive from Maastricht, you'll find Li\u00e8ge, home to Belgium's largest market: La Batte. You'll be able to barely move at this Sunday market with over five hundred stalls.<\/p>\n<h2>Aken \u2013 35 minutes<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Aachen, you can soak up culture and enjoy some fantastic shopping at the same time, as the main shopping streets are located close to Aachen Cathedral and the old town hall. Is it raining? Then go for some indoor shopping at the Aquis Plaza or the Elisengalerie.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Leuven 1 hr 7 min<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leuven is a vibrant student city. Sights you really shouldn't miss include the enormous town hall on the Grote Markt and the Grand and Small Beguinages. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2>D\u00fcsseldorf \u2013 1 hour 15 minutes<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D\u00fcsseldorf is very much worth a visit. Visit the Altstadt \u2013 the historic city centre \u2013 and don't miss the Medienhafen, the redeveloped harbour area with its modern architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Cologne \u2013 1 hr 19 min<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you go to Cologne, you can hardly avoid Cologne Cathedral. The Great St. Martin Church (Gro\u00df Sankt Martin) is also well worth a visit. On the left bank of the Rhine you'll find the Cologne Synagogue, where you can get a kosher lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you going to Germany? If so, please remember that in most city centres you need a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/all-german-environmental-stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">environmental sticker <\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">need? This applies to Aachen, D\u00fcsseldorf and Cologne, among others.<a href=\"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/overige-paginas\/auto-huren-brunssum\/\"> Car hire in the Brunssum region<\/a>This is possible at Adrem!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many beautiful Belgian and German cities are surprisingly close by. We have listed the most beautiful cities within a one-and-a-half-hour drive from Maastricht for you.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nieuws"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41611,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions\/41611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adremlimburg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}