Kromme Nieuwegracht
Quiet curving canal lined with historic houses, including a Renaissance mansion built for a pope.
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This guide to the Kromme Nieuwegracht in Utrecht centres on the stepped-gabled corner house built for Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens, a local man serving at the court of Charles the Fifth who hoped to come home one day. It moves from a summer in Rome in the fifteen-twenties to the later centuries when the house took in paying guests, among them Hortense de Beauharnais. Best heard on the canal bank facing the corner of Achter Sint Pieter.
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