9-Nights Best of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg End Amsterdam
Best Of Holland, Belgium And Luxembourg End Amsterdam
Experience all the highlights of the Low Countries on this Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg trip. Buzzing capitals, quaint merchant towns and lush countryside are the backdrop to the fascinating stories of these tiny nations.
Dining Summary
- 1 Welcome Reception (WR)
- 9 Breakfast (B)
- 1 Dinner (D)
- 1 Farewell Dinner (FD)
- Amsterdam: Visit the Rijksmuseum, the national art gallery of the Netherlands, where you'll enjoy its exceptional collection of works by the Dutch masters.
- Delft: Visit the Delft Pottery factory to see how this delicate porcelain is created.
- Bruges: See first-hand the famous tradition of Belgian lace at a workshop in Bruges.
- Amsterdam: Cruise along the old waterways with your Travel Director and fellow travellers. Discover the architectural gems of the old city, including mansions dating from the Golden Age of the 17th Century.
- Rotterdam: Witness the impressive market hall and Erasmus Bridge on your orientation of this modern city.
- Maastricht: Maastricht is one of the oldest cities in Holland, where churches, city walls, monumental merchant houses and big squares merge seamlessly with contemporary boutiques and restaurants.
- Bastogne: Visit the Mardasson Monument, where American troops who fought for liberation of the Belgian people are memorialised with the inscription 'They who live now can witness the grandness of those who died here, they all fought with an increasing respect for freedom for which they went through an ordeal of fire to achieve it.'
- Luxembourg City: With your Local Specialist, enjoy views over the Petrusse Ravine and walk through the Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. See the cathedral, the Palace of the Grand Duke and visit the grave of U.S. General George S. Patton.
- Dinant: Stop for time at leisure in Dinant and see the towering Collegiate Church of Our Lady.
- Bruges: Visit the Market Square and famous belfry of the Market Hall with your Local Specialist. See the Gothic town hall in Burg Square and the frescoes on the walls of the Holy Blood Chapel.
- Ghent: Stroll along the Lys River to the historic city centre of Ghent and discover one of Europe’s finest panoramas of water, spires and centuries-old grand houses.
- Brussels: Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Brussels. See the Atomium, Mannekin Pis and Grand Palace.
- : Explore the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Luxembourg City and Bruges with a Local Specialist
- : Discover Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Maastricht, Ghent and Brussels
- : Visit General George Patton's Grave in Luxembourg City, Orval Abbey, Dinant and a lace making workshop in Bruges
- : View The American Memorial at Bastogne
- : Scenic Cruise on the canals of Amst
9 nights from $3125 per person
Supplier: Trafalgar
Featured Destinations
Amsterdam
Cosmopolitan Amsterdam is most famous for its narrow, gabled houses lining the canals. Interesting attractions include the medieval weighhouse, Royal Palace on Dam Square, and New Church. Its most glamorous industry is the diamond trade. Not too far from Amsterdam are the flower centers of Aalsmeer, the picturesque fishing villages of Volendam and Marken, cheese markets at Edam and Gouda, and historic Haarlem, the main center of the bulb-growing industry. Enjoy the city’s sights from a glass-topped sightseeing boat which passes characteristic gabled houses and negotiates picturesque arched bridges. Facing Dam Square, the Royal Palace was built in 1648 and is still officially the royal residence, although the royal family resides in The Hague. The marbled Citizens Hall with inlaid maps of the world is worth seeing. One of Amsterdam’s most visited sites is historic Anne Frank House. Rijksmuseum, the city’s most prestigious museum, houses the largest collection of Dutch paintings in the world. Van Gogh Museum houses a striking collection.
Brussels
Brussels's Upper and a Lower Town conjure up images of important buildings and long avenues and small, dark streets. Lower Town, the old Flemish quarter, contains the city's most famous sites, including its greatest landmark, Grand Place, and the Manneken Pis. It's also the location of around ten churches relatively close to each other; most of them from the Flemish Renaissance and Baroque periods. In Upper Town, you'll find King's palace, royal squares and various palaces from the eighteenth-century neo-classical Austrian period. The built-up business and residential areas are scrupulously broken up by frequent patches of green parks, which help account for the city's sedate, unfrenzied atmosphere. Around the city center are congregated many small, carefully laid-out parks that provide settings for statues and national monuments.
Luxembourg
Multilingualism is one of the assets of the Grand Ducal capital. Visitors may be ushered in with a hearty ”Moiën”, as the natives stick to their mother tongue, ”Lëtzebuergesch”, now as before. Placed in the heart of Europe, Luxembourg has matured into an economic and cultural center. The modern edifices of the European Institutions on the Kirchberg Plateau or the futuristic bank head offices lining Boulevard Royal bear witness to progress the city has made. The media world has found a home here, just like the circles of the specialist conventions or international conferences. Many great names, from Goethe or Victor Hugo to William Turner, used to think highly of Luxembourg hospitality and open-mindedness. Therefore, visitors should feel at ease in a cosmopolitan city stamped by the spell of smallness, visible at a glance.
Bruges
Because of the export of high-quality cloths, Bruges became prosperous and rich. The remaining buildings still let you feel how rich Bruges was. Museums house a lot of fabulous paintings from this time. At the end of the 15th century Bruges was prosperous because of the silting up of the coastal area in Zwin, now a natural park near Knokke that can be discovered by bike during the summer. Walking in the city you can feel Bruges's history. Bruges became poor and was put back in the spotlight by Georges Rodenbach's novel "Bruges la Morte". Bruges was reborn as an Art City, well preserved, never severely damaged. The city is admired every day by thousands of tourists from all over the world. In 2002 Bruges was been chosen together with Salamanca in Spain as culture cities of Europe.
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