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Candle straight avenues and monumental buildings dominate the landscape in Merksplas-Kolonie. Vagrants used to live here, who were compulsorily sent to the Colony. Because they were poor, begged or caused a nuisance. They worked and lived there together. In 1993, this system came to an end.

Vagrants are no longer in the Colony. Their story, however, is still etched into the landscape. Merksplas-Kolonie is now an important heritage site with protected monuments in a protected landscape.

Discover it for yourself and visit this special place! First meet the Kolonie 5-7 visitor center in the former pigsty of the Grote Hoeve. Then continue your tour through the landscape; by bike or on foot. If you like to be pampered culinarily, this is also the right place to be.