Tag: DOM TOWER
Queen Máxima attends festive delivery of Dom Tower
Utrecht – Queen Máxima will be present at the official delivery of the Dom Tower in Utrecht on Saturday 9 November 2024. The restoration of the tower, which took five…
Baptism of fire for ‘the jukebox of Utrecht’: for the first time again a concert from the Dom Tower without scaffolding
The official unveiling of the Dom Tower will take a few more months, but the foundations Utrechtse Klokkenspel Vrienden and Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht felt that attention should be paid…
This is how the tour of Dom guide Jan changed during the restoration
The finishing touches are being put on the ‘i’, most of the scaffolding has been taken down. The Dom Tower looks almost like it used to. For the guides of…
Summer in the Zeven Steegjes: residents come together even in the rain
“Melissa’s have now also a fatbike, huh?” Says An in flat Utrecht dialect. “And Angel too. Those things cost a thousand euros”, Bep responds. Despite the summer, it is a…
1 star on Google, but guide Jan is proud of the restored Dom Tower
First stop: the Michael’s Chapel. Jan: “Before it was restored, it was a lot darker here.” Instead of the three layers of stained glass, there is now only one. Much…
Margreet collects cards of the Dom under scaffolding: ‘There is a lively market in postcards’
“So there is a very lively market in old postcards. In Utrecht there is a shop that sells antique cards,” says Margreet. “There are webshops that do that too, but…
350 years ago the Dom was cut in two: what other damage did Utrecht sustain?
The Dom Tower is still partly covered in scaffolding at the bottom. Lex gratefully uses the informative illustrations on the fence. “Take a good look at this picture. You can…
A restoration every 50 years: what is still original about the Dom Tower?
What makes it difficult is that everything has to be able to stay in place for the next fifty years. “That means that you feel like you have to remove…