It’s the city’s timepiece, its heart and the tallest church tower in the Netherlands . . . and the 14th-century Dom Tower in Utrecht is just begging to be climbed. But first we go underground in a new archaeological attraction open this summer, DomUnder.
Just over the square, in the basement of the modern UCK Arts Centre is the cellar of the 13th-century house of the canons of the Dom (cathedral) which in turn sits on layer upon layer of earlier history. DomUnder archaeologist Herre Wynia points at a piece of grey stone wall. “This is part of the Roman castellum, built here in 43AD,” he says. “It was built to defend the Roman supply lines to their troops in Britain.”
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