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Vincent van Gogh himself provides plenty of inspiration to follow his life and work. This tour offers a new way to experience the versatility of Van Gogh’s life path.
On the bike you can take in the surroundings at an adjusted pace, riding close to the places where he lived through landscapes that he shaped in his expressive way. You can breathe in the atmosphere of the region and follow with your eyes and ears what is happening in the surroundings.
In Nuenen you can see that the stories and legacy of Vincent van Gogh live on not only in his letters and paintings, but also in the numerous places, landscapes and scenes, as Van Gogh painted them here.
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Duration: 9 hours
Starts: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Vincent van Gogh himself provides plenty of inspiration to follow his life and work. This tour offers a new way to experience the versatility of Van Gogh’s life path.
On the bike you can take in the surroundings at an adjusted pace, riding close to the places where he lived through landscapes that he shaped in his expressive way. You can breathe in the atmosphere of the region and follow with your eyes and ears what is happening in the surroundings.
In Nuenen you can see that the stories and legacy of Vincent van Gogh live on not only in his letters and paintings, but also in the numerous places, landscapes and scenes, as Van Gogh painted them here.
Stop At: Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland Province
We meet in front of Amsterdam Central station. Vincent van Gogh lived in an exciting time. The modern world was in full swing due to the emergence of an extensive railway network in Europe. And Vincent was moving with it and so will you! You catch the train to Eindhoven in the south of the Netherlands.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Eindhoven, Eindhoven, North Brabant Province
During the train ride from Amsterdam to Eindhoven, you get a beautiful view of the Dutch landscape with windmills, river scenery and orchards. Your guide will tell you what you will see. The train return ticket is included
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Pass By: Collse Watermolen, Collseweg 3-5, 5641 JN Eindhoven The Netherlands
On one of his many walks from Nuenen to Eindhoven, Van Gogh painted the Coll watermill. You will cycle from Eindhoven to Nuenen and pass this water mill.
Stop At: Van Gogh Village Nuenen, Berg 29, 5671 CA Nuenen The Netherlands
Nuenen is a beautiful village. Of course beauty is subjective. But it was not for nothing that Vincent van Gogh’s painting really blossomed here. Of course, the world-famous painter worked in several countries and produced his most distinctive and best-known works in France. He lived in Nuenen for only two years, but painted a quarter of his oeuvre there, including his first masterpiece “The Potato Eaters.
It was his fascination with peasant life and the beauty of the village that inspired Van Gogh. The typical structure of a ribbon settlement
with triangular squares and hamlets. He saw the Park and the Mountain where the cattle stood drinking. The historic core that changed into a typical Brabant landscape with small fields, rows of poplars and the former floodplains of the Dommel in the Nuenens Broek. This Nuenen is still visible. The landscape, the monuments (14 locations which he once painted can still be seen) and the way in which the historic core merges into the landscape.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Van Gogh Museum, Museumplein 6, 1071 DJ Amsterdam The Netherlands
After visiting Nuenen, return to Amsterdam and visit the van Gogh Museum. Here you can see the paintings of the places you visited yourself in Nuenen and its surroundings. Your personal experience of the place gives a unique extra dimension to the painting that van Gogh painted.
Duration: 2 hours
