Oudenbosch Basilica - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

Flying Museum Seppe is an aviation museum on the grounds of Breda International Airport. You will find a static collection of cutaway engines, airplane models and a real airplane in which children can feel what it is like to fly an airplane. You can also admire a beautiful replica of the Wright Flyer from 1903, and a unique reconstruction of a real Messerschmitt Me 109.

Pannenhoef is a nature reserve of approximately 706 hectares located between Zundert , Etten-Leur and Rijsbergen in the province of North Brabant and is owned by the Brabants Landschap Foundation . In the area, which largely consists of mixed forest , there are eleven fens and some heather remnants with an important natural value . In the area grows, among other things, flounder and spotted orchid . Numerous birds nest here, including green woodpecker and buzzard.

The Grote Kerk or Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk is the most important monument and a landmark of Breda. The church is built in the Brabantine Gothic style. The tower of the church is 97 meters tall. The plan is in the shape of a Latin Cross. It is the only religious building built in the style of the Brabant Gothic style characteristic for this region, which has survived to our times. There are many valuable works of art inside.

A majestic old castle located in the heart of Netherlands. The Lords of Breda, descendants of the royal house of Oranje-Nassau, lived in this castle, held court, partied and exercised their power. In the sixteenth century, Count Henry III of Nassau had the castle rigorously converted into a Renaissance palace. With the arrival of the Royal Military Academy in 1826, the castle was again considerably austere and stripped of many of its Renaissance ornaments.

The West Brabant Water Line is a defence-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the Netherlands. It dates from the 17th century but fell into disrepair in the 19th century.The bridge lies like a trench in the fortress and the moat, shaped to blend in with the outlines of the landscape. The bridge can’t be seen from a distance because the ground and the water come all the way up to its edge.

Fort De Roovere is an earthen fort, constructed as part of the Dutch Water Line, a series of water-based defences conceived by Maurice of Nassau in 1628 during the Eighty Years War where it defended against Spanish attackers. It is located near Halsteren.The fort is open from the ‘back’, and the ‘front’ consists of two bastions. Until the renovation in 2010 the fort's moat was dry and the surrounding area and banks were overgrown with trees.