Gorinchem Netherlands South Holland
Netherlands

8 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Uniworld Boutique River Cruise (8 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At the foot of the ramparts, a short distance from the fortified centre. River ships moor on the Merwede and everything after that is done on foot — no transport is needed during the call.
It is the largest intact fortified town in the Netherlands. Seen from above it forms an almost perfect star at the confluence of the Linge and the Merwede, and in 2021 the Dutch automobile club named it the country's finest fortified town.
Yes, and it is the best way to understand the town. The full circuit, laid out on early seventeenth-century bastions, runs about five kilometres with no particular difficulty. It looks down in turn on the old roofs, the inner canals and the wide ribbon of the Merwede.
Allow a good hour and a half to two hours for the five kilometres at a strolling pace, including the benches along the way. The ground is flat and well maintained; ordinary walking shoes are enough.
Yes, during opening slots — check locally, as they are irregular. The top of this tall, slightly leaning church tower gives a panorama over the star-shaped fortifications and the rivers.
A navigator born here who was shipwrecked on the coast of Korea in 1653 and held there for thirteen years. The account he published on his return became the first detailed Western description of that then-closed kingdom. A museum in the centre is devoted to him.
Yes, in season, by pedestrian ferry. This fourteenth-century fortress stands on the opposite bank at the meeting of the great rivers; it was from its prison that the scholar Hugo Grotius escaped in 1621, hidden in a book chest. Allow a generous call time.
A defence system based on deliberate flooding, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, to which the town's bastions belong. Walking that green belt means crossing four centuries of military strategy without meeting a single cannon.
Two, both in the old centre: the Hendrick Hamel museum and the Gorcums Museum in the former town hall, which covers local history and regional painters. Neither takes more than an hour.
Yes, especially for children who can walk. The rampart circuit is safe, sheep graze on the glacis and the ferry to Loevestein is a hit. There is, however, nothing designed for very young children.