Nieuwegracht
Quiet medieval canal lined with vaulted wharf cellars, monumental houses and six single-arch bridges.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Nieuwegracht in Utrecht is about what lies beneath a quiet canal street: the vaulted brick wharf cellars tucked under the road, and the ground the canal was dug through in the thirteen-nineties. It touches on who owns the walls and who owns the cellars, and on the crews who open the street to mend centuries-old brickwork. Best heard by the railing, looking down at the doorways on the wharf.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Oudegracht
Medieval canal lined with sunken wharves and vaulted merchant cellars now filled with cafés.
Twijnstraat
Historic canal-side shopping street lined with ornate shopfronts and old wharf warehouses.
Stadskasteel Oudaen - Restaurant en Vergaderlocatie in Utrecht
Medieval brick city castle with battlements, a lofty knights' hall and a brewery in its vaults.
Ledig Erf
Lively canal-side corner with terraces where two old waterways meet beside the medieval moat.
Stadhuis
Neoclassical city hall on a canal, with medieval cellars and a playful late-twentieth-century wing.
Kromme Nieuwegracht
Quiet curving canal lined with historic houses, including a Renaissance mansion built for a pope.