Zadelstraat
Historic shopping lane named for medieval saddlemakers, running toward the soaring Dom Tower.
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This guide to Zadelstraat in Utrecht begins with a line hidden inside a medieval Rhyming Bible and the painter who put it there, Michiel van der Borch, in the 1330s. It follows the lane from its Latin name in 1196 to the saddlemakers who gave it the one it carries today, and to the odd company that Utrecht's book painters were made to keep. Best heard standing on the street itself, looking down at the paving.
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