Tourist attractions Kampen

From the right bank of the Ijssel, you will have a beautiful view of the whole town, magnificent at twilight. In particular, you will see the onion-domed turret of the old town hall and the Nieuwe Toren standing out in the centre, the 14C Buitenkerk ..

The municipal museum is dedicated to the interesting history of Zwolle. It is in an attractive 16C noble house, the Drostenhuis (Bailiff's house) to which a modern wing has been added. The house has furnished rooms and attractive collections of silve..

This tall square tower was built in the 17C. Topped by an octagonal belltower, it has a peal of bells cast by the Hemony brothers.

This elegant residence, its tall façade crowned with pinnacles and pierced by many windows, houses the municipal museum ( Stedelijk Museum ). Here you will find in particular the watermen's guild collection of silverware with a fine horn and silver ..

This church is a huge Gothic building dating from the middle of the 14C and dominated by a 70m tower. The interior is remarkable for its size and has five naves, a wide transept and a large ambulatory with chapels radiating from it. Notice in particu..

Overlooked by the new 18C town hall, this small building dating from 1543 is crowned with galleries and flanked to the rear by an octagonal, slightly leaning tower, with an openwork onion dome. Its pinnacled gable is framed by turrets. The Magistrate..

This elegant building, flanked by towers with narrow rooves, formed part of the walls in the 15C. It was modified in the 17C in the Renaissance style.

This is the oldest of the town gates (14C). Located on the site of the old grain market of Koornmarket, near the Bovenkerk, it has kept its defensive character with a massive central keep enclosed by two squat towers.

This museum lets you discover natural history, geology and the environment in an entertaining way. The museum of natural history brings together skeletons from the ice age and a varied collection of birds. The pavilion at the Ecodrome will take you o..

This museum is dedicated to naive and fringe art and brings together collections of paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists who developed outside of the mainstream art world. These are creations with a great personal significance, a heightened ..

This Protestant church hall has three naves and dates from the 14 and 15C. It no longer has its traditional large belfry which was unable to withstand the succession of disasters. Especially worthy of mention is the sculpted pulpit from the start of ..

A new town hall has been added to the old one (15 and 19C) which had become too small. Its façades are punctuated by concrete buttresses at the top of which are a succession of pointed red roofs. The old part has a room from 1448. This former courtho..

The head of Charles V, visible on a medallion on the gable, has provided the name for this house which was stone built in 1571 and is adorned with a pretty Renaissance pilastered façade with sculpted friezes and a scrolled gable where elongated gods ..

Built around 1409, this "Saxon gate" is the only remaining one from the surrounding wall of the town. It has a brattice and is flanked by four octagonal turrets with pointed roofs topped by a spire. The gate served as a prison for a long ti..

This museum occupies the former island church and its outbuildings. It evokes the region's medieval past through the archeological discoveries made during the construction work, the island's population in prehistoric times and its geological evolutio..

In this street of beautiful houses, you will see one dating from the 15 C that resembles a donjon and is named Burcht (strong castle) or Arent toe Boecophuis.

Situated to the north, this 14C tower once overlooked the sea. It is flanked by bartizans, and the only surviving town gateway

This square has attractive monuments such as St-Nicolaaskerk (end of the Gothic), the Klokkentoren (old prison) and the old town hall (17C), a porticoed building built of brick and sandstone and converted into a restaurant. There is also the pretty f..

Here, there are a number of spectacular and varied attractions, including the wild river, The tipping Condor which turns you upside down five times, the G-force cylinder and the frightening Space Shot, which sends you 60 m in the air... The cautious ..