Tourist attractions Bourtange

This reconstructed barracks accommodates archaeological finds. In the old gunpowder store , a series of slides provide information on the fort.

This is a typical example of a fortress built according to the old system of Dutch fortification, built around a pentagonal bastion, and boasting two surrounding moats. The fort can only be reached by two narrow roads which lead to the market square ..

This small Romanesque church stands amid the cemetery tombs, on a mound surrounded by ditches and a curtain of trees. Its brick walls are pierced by some small rose windows surrounded by boudins and the chancel is decorated with blind arches.

Of this former convent located in a park planted with large beech trees, there only remains a church and two wings of the cloister. You can visit the cloister, the refectory and its cellar, where sarcophaguses, discovered in the old courtyard of the ..