Guidebook for Breda

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Guidebook for Breda

Drinks & Nightlife

Very nice and calm place with friendly bar staff. Artists and musicians usually come here. Live music on Saturday's. Lovely atmosphere in summer and winter. My personal spot!
Café Panting Deer
7 Pasbaan
Very nice and calm place with friendly bar staff. Artists and musicians usually come here. Live music on Saturday's. Lovely atmosphere in summer and winter. My personal spot!
Famous beer-cafe since 1838. Locals go here. Next to 'T Hijgent Hert. Visit both of them!
14 locals recommend
Beyerd Café-Restaurant-Brouwerij De Beyerd
26 Boschstraat
14 locals recommend
Famous beer-cafe since 1838. Locals go here. Next to 'T Hijgent Hert. Visit both of them!
Best wine-bar in town. Also good for French cuisine! Small bites make a whole meal at Dames Pellens.
Dames Pellens
24 Boschstraat
Best wine-bar in town. Also good for French cuisine! Small bites make a whole meal at Dames Pellens.
City Beach
14 locals recommend
Belcrum Beach
12a Veilingkade
14 locals recommend
City Beach

Parks & Nature

500 years old forrest with restaurants for breakfast and lunch to unwind!
43 locals recommend
Mastbos
43 locals recommend
500 years old forrest with restaurants for breakfast and lunch to unwind!
City park around the corner. Just to unwind a bit.
Mayor Sonsbeeck Park
112 Julianalaan
City park around the corner. Just to unwind a bit.
Central city-park.
19 locals recommend
Valkenberg
19 locals recommend
Central city-park.

Entertainment & Activities

Nice for an active swim or to enjoy with your family.
Optisport Pool Sonsbeeck
2 Pieter-Christiaanstraat
Nice for an active swim or to enjoy with your family.
High segment sports school with Scandinavian and Turkish sauna. You can buy a week-ticket for 20,00 euro and go there every day for fitness or yoga.
Enjoy Sports
15 Zandoogjes
High segment sports school with Scandinavian and Turkish sauna. You can buy a week-ticket for 20,00 euro and go there every day for fitness or yoga.
Very pleasant classic outdoor swimming pool surrounded by nature. Known for their early morning swimmers.
Wolfslaar
Very pleasant classic outdoor swimming pool surrounded by nature. Known for their early morning swimmers.

Food Scene

Pizza place with stone oven pizza right across the street. take a two minute walk for this basic and brand new pizza place.
Pizza Cantina
156 Oranjeboomstraat
Pizza place with stone oven pizza right across the street. take a two minute walk for this basic and brand new pizza place.
Worth a visit because of the architectural design by artist John Körmeling who designed the place.
't T-Huis
15 John F. Kennedylaan
Worth a visit because of the architectural design by artist John Körmeling who designed the place.
Local understanding in Breda. Reliable and perfect for business appointments.
9 locals recommend
Charelli
35 Van Coothplein
9 locals recommend
Local understanding in Breda. Reliable and perfect for business appointments.
A special lunch room with a friendly interior where boys and girls with intellectual disabilities serve you very nice lunch (soup, salade, sandwiches) or coffee with delicacy.
JanenAlleman
22 Sint Janstraat
A special lunch room with a friendly interior where boys and girls with intellectual disabilities serve you very nice lunch (soup, salade, sandwiches) or coffee with delicacy.
Very nice interior and backyard terrace with good coffee, tea or lunch. Perfect for appointments or to bring your laptop and work here for a while.
14 locals recommend
In Kannen & Kruiken
45 Veemarktstraat
14 locals recommend
Very nice interior and backyard terrace with good coffee, tea or lunch. Perfect for appointments or to bring your laptop and work here for a while.
Low budget understanding in Breda. Eat like you do at home (like Dutch people do..). You can order a 3 course menu for 8,50 between 16.00 tot 19.30. Easygoing..
Den Boerenstamppot
3 Schoolstraat
Low budget understanding in Breda. Eat like you do at home (like Dutch people do..). You can order a 3 course menu for 8,50 between 16.00 tot 19.30. Easygoing..

Arts & Culture

Beautiful restored factory buildings plus the modern entrancebuilding now house the TextielMuseum and TextielLab. This characteristic industrial architecture is a listed national monument and they have nice exhibitions with a lot of attention for Dutch Design and young talent. Combine a visit with 'De Pont'.
44 locals recommend
Textile Museum
96 Goirkestraat
44 locals recommend
Beautiful restored factory buildings plus the modern entrancebuilding now house the TextielMuseum and TextielLab. This characteristic industrial architecture is a listed national monument and they have nice exhibitions with a lot of attention for Dutch Design and young talent. Combine a visit with 'De Pont'.
In 'De Pont' you can find one of the best private art collections in The Netherlands. The architecture is beyond fantastic and the whole is just a perfect museum with a good bookshop and a nice corner to have lunch or a coffee.
55 locals recommend
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art
1 Wilhelminapark
55 locals recommend
In 'De Pont' you can find one of the best private art collections in The Netherlands. The architecture is beyond fantastic and the whole is just a perfect museum with a good bookshop and a nice corner to have lunch or a coffee.
Friendly characteristic place run by a very special and spiritual lady. All kind of high- and low profile exhibitions on art and photography combined with yoga- and other spiritual workshops.
City Gallery Breda
34 Oude Vest
Friendly characteristic place run by a very special and spiritual lady. All kind of high- and low profile exhibitions on art and photography combined with yoga- and other spiritual workshops.
Just beautiful and perfect independent art gallery for temporary paintings and sculptures. They represent mainly well picked local artists.
Galerie Ecker
18 Markendaalseweg
Just beautiful and perfect independent art gallery for temporary paintings and sculptures. They represent mainly well picked local artists.
Our personal favorite place to experience temporary art. Club Solo is very rare and special with custom made solo-exhibitions designed by the very well selected artists themselves. Club Solo also offers a varied side-program with artist-talks, parties and live music.
Club Solo
138 Kloosterlaan
Our personal favorite place to experience temporary art. Club Solo is very rare and special with custom made solo-exhibitions designed by the very well selected artists themselves. Club Solo also offers a varied side-program with artist-talks, parties and live music.
The Vincent van GoghHuis is an arts centre built on the native soil of one of the most famous artists in history. The temporary exhibitions are all about artists who are inspired by the work and life of Vincent van Gogh. For art lovers as well as tourists.
11 locals recommend
Vincent van Gogh Huis
26-27 Markt
11 locals recommend
The Vincent van GoghHuis is an arts centre built on the native soil of one of the most famous artists in history. The temporary exhibitions are all about artists who are inspired by the work and life of Vincent van Gogh. For art lovers as well as tourists.
FOMU is a museum on temporary photography and is located in the south of Antwerp. Great neighborhood for design, architecture and bar-culture.
145 locals recommend
Photo Museum of Antwerp
47 Waalsekaai
145 locals recommend
FOMU is a museum on temporary photography and is located in the south of Antwerp. Great neighborhood for design, architecture and bar-culture.

Sightseeing

Living area build like a beautiful campus for modern living designed by Rem Koolhaas and Xaveer de Geyter. Just walk around and be amazed how they combined characteristic historical heritage with modern architecture.
Chassépark
20 Kloosterplein
Living area build like a beautiful campus for modern living designed by Rem Koolhaas and Xaveer de Geyter. Just walk around and be amazed how they combined characteristic historical heritage with modern architecture.

Essentials

Daily needs like supermarket, bookshop, drugstore.
Breda, Dr. Struyckenplein station
Daily needs like supermarket, bookshop, drugstore.
Organic and very nice supermarket! Surrounded by other nice small stores like a fresh an Turkish bakery, a butcher and a local beverages shop for your daily needs.
Ekoplaza
7 Nieuwe Haagdijk
Organic and very nice supermarket! Surrounded by other nice small stores like a fresh an Turkish bakery, a butcher and a local beverages shop for your daily needs.
Highly acclaimed modern hairdresser / barber with fantastic nice staff!
SUDS
23 Sint Annastraat
Highly acclaimed modern hairdresser / barber with fantastic nice staff!