The circuit
Eight kilometres past lakes and meadows.
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The northern frontier of the Roman Empire, which ran along the old course of the Rhine across the Netherlands from Katwijk on the sea to the German border. It was a line of forts, watchtowers and roads rather than a wall like Hadrian's. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2021 together with its German sections. Its remains in the Netherlands are mostly buried under towns, which is why it is presented through reconstructions like this tower and through the Roman layer beneath Utrecht's Dom square.
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Máximapark lies in Leidsche Rijn west of Utrecht, among the largest urban parks in the Netherlands at around three hundred hectares, created from nothing alongside a new residential district built for a hundred thousand people. That is what is interesting about it: normally districts are built and whatever is left over becomes green space. Here the park was designed first as a spine, and the district built around it. Its main feature is a circuit of about eight kilometres for walking, cycling and running, looping past lakes, meadows and small woods. At its centre are the Vleutense villa and a botanical garden divided into themed spaces, an open-air theatre and a children's farm. The strangest element is Roman: the limes — the northern frontier of the Roman Empire — ran through here, and a full-size Roman watchtower has been reconstructed at the park's edge. Free and always open.
Eight kilometres past lakes and meadows.
A full-size reconstructed watchtower.
Alendorpselaan, 3543 Utrecht