Situated in a thin finger of land that reaches down between Belgium and Germany, MAASTRICHT is one of the most delightful cities in the Netherlands, located firmly in the heart of Europe and quite different from the waterland centres of the north. A cosmopolitan place, where three languages happily coexist, it's also one of the oldest towns in the country. The first settlers here were Roman, when Maastricht became an important stop on the trade route between Cologne and the co... [More]