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Meet ‘Vincent van Gogh’ – Day Tour from Amsterdam
On this Van Gogh Tour we take you into the Dutch Countryside of Brabant. Discover Vincent’s life. Where he was born in Zundert, how Vincent started to draw in Etten, the farm village of Zundert where he painted the ‘Potato eaters’. Find out about Vincent’s life in the Netherlands, what kind of person was he and what inspired him? See it for yourselves
Customize this tour and choose between a visit of VinCentre -or- Kröller-Müller museum.
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Duration: 8 to 9 hours
Starts: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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Meet ‘Vincent van Gogh’ – Day Tour from Amsterdam
On this Van Gogh Tour we take you into the Dutch Countryside of Brabant. Discover Vincent’s life. Where he was born in Zundert, how Vincent started to draw in Etten, the farm village of Zundert where he painted the ‘Potato eaters’. Find out about Vincent’s life in the Netherlands, what kind of person was he and what inspired him? See it for yourselves
Customize this tour and choose between a visit of VinCentre -or- Kröller-Müller museum.
Stop At: Zundert, Zundert, North Brabant Province
See the town where Vincent van Gogh was borne and grew up until te age of 16 years old. The church where Vincent’s father preached. Some of the happiest years in his life. But why is there a gravestone with the name ‘Vincent van Gogh at the cemetery?
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Etten-Leur, Etten-Leur, North Brabant Province
Etten-Leur is where the Van Gogh family lived for 7 years. A turning point in Vincent’s life. This is where he discovered he wanted to paint. See why Etten became his inspiration.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: De Watermolen van Opwetten, Opwettenseweg 203, 5674 AC Nuenen, Netherlands
Enjoy at this watermill, rebuilt in 1764 and painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1884.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Van Gogh Village Nuenen, Berg 29, 5671 CA Nuenen The Netherlands
There are no less then 23 locations in Nuenen reminding of Van Gogh. Fourteen of them you can see in his paintings. This is where he painted one of his most famous paintings of the ‘Potatoe eaters’. Nuenen is the closest you can get to Vincent van Gogh
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Vincentre, Berg 29, 5671 CA Nuenen, Netherlands
OPTIONAL: At the Vincentre museum you can listen to stories and read letters of Vincent’s life in Nuenen. He lived and worked here from 1883 to 1885.
Although there are no original paintings, you get to know him as a person and see how he developed to become a world-famous artist.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Stop At: Kroller-Muller Museum, Houtkampweg 6, 6731 AW Otterlo, Ede The Netherlands
OPTIONAL: The Kröller-Müller Museum boasts the second-largest Van Gogh collection in the world: almost 90 paintings and over 180 drawings. The Van Gogh Gallery displays varying selections of about 40 works by Vincent van Gogh.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
