Tag: Dom
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…
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…
Did you know that there is a chameleon and a seahorse hidden in the Dom Tower?
De Wild finds it special because it also brings back the character of the creator in the Dom Tower. “We agreed that we would respect the sculptures. The sculptures from…
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…
Van Rossem talks about the day the Dom collapsed, exactly 350 years ago today
Many people know it and if you stand on the Domplein you can still see it clearly: there is only half a church there. A large part of the original…
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…
it will be a prequel, Dom returns
Among the countless games that Microsoft rolled out during its Xbox Games Showcase, there was one that was particularly anticipated and which had already been the subject of rumors, namely…