About this walk
Nine people from Utrecht who all refused to do what was expected of them, from the woman who began tearing down an emperor's castle to the student who shot the chief of police dead.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
Trijn van Leemput
The walk starts with the woman who began tearing down an emperor's castle.
- 2Stop 2
Saint Willibrord
He came to convert a people who had not asked for it.
- 3Stop 3
Jan van Nassau
He wrote the treaty that made the Netherlands and then walked away.
- 4Stop 4
Anna Maria van Schurman
She was allowed to study on condition that she stayed invisible.
- 5Stop 5
Pope Adrian VI
The only Dutch pope, and he took no pleasure in it.
- 6Stop 6
The Utrecht Caravaggisti
Utrecht painters came back from Rome with a way of seeing that nobody here knew.
- 7Stop 7
Herman Berkien
He put the dialect you were supposed to unlearn on stage, and a whole city still sings along.
- 8Stop 8
Truus van Lier
On this spot a twenty-two-year-old law student shot the chief of police dead.
- 9Stop 9
Zocher and the Singel Park
From city wall to park to motorway and back to water.
Ready when you are
Walk People of Utrecht with ROODS.
9 stops through Utrecht, about 60 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
