Market Vredenburg
Open-air market square on the site of a demolished imperial castle, busy with stalls three days a week.
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This guide to Market Vredenburg in Utrecht follows the ground beneath the stalls, from the fortress Charles the Fifth raised here in the fifteen hundreds to the market halls that took its place. It turns to nineteen seventeen, when a group of Dutch manufacturers came looking for somewhere to show their goods in wartime. Prince Hendrik and Queen Wilhelmina turn up along the way. Best heard among the stalls on a market morning.
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