Twijnstraat
Historic canal-side shopping street lined with ornate shopfronts and old wharf warehouses.
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This guide to the Twijnstraat in Utrecht follows the water that runs below the street, from a settlement on a bend of the Rhine to the boats that kept its warehouses stocked. It brings in the farmers, market gardeners and horses who came up from the villages to the south, and the writer who later longed for the sounds and smells of that busy street. Best heard on the pavement facing the old shopfronts.
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