Brick walls and grass bastions make a six-bastion star around a town of stepped gables and red tile roofs.
What Naarden looks like
Six bastions make a star around the old town, and the walls date from 1675 to 1685. From the outer bank the moat is wide and still, with trees along the far side and grass rising to the brick faces of the walls.
Inside the walls the streets are narrow, and two and three storey houses meet the pavement under stepped gables and pitched red tile roofs. Herringbone brick and cobbles surface some of the roads.
Seen from the ramparts, the tower rises above the red roofs. The dates from the early 1600s and has stepped gables, with dark shutters on its windows.
Brick walls line both banks of the canal, and boats moor along one side. A white two storey house stands on the bank.
Tunnel entrances and gates are cut into the grass banks at several points. The has a footbridge across the moat to its arch.
The sits on a bastion at Westwalstraat 6. Cannons stand on the grass, and a metal stair runs up the bank. Concrete bunkers with iron doors sit in the earthwork elsewhere, and many earth-covered buildings stand on the bastions.
Shot in Naarden
In 1979 the Bassie and Adriaan series De Diamant used the Utrechtse Poort as its museum exterior. The crooks climb down the side wall of the same gate.
De Diamant, 1979
Utrechtse Poort
Played the museum where the diamond is displayed
The photograph shows the gate from the outside, across its footbridge over the moat. The diamond exhibition in the series is held in the museum this front represents. Street View
Spandau Citadel is one of the best-preserved Renaissance bastion forts in Europe, begun in 1559 and not finished until 1594. Naarden's brick ramparts give a similar wall picture, so a tight frame on one bastion can stand in for the citadel. Wide shots give the town away through its houses and church tower. Keep the frame on the bastion and the water. Try searching Renaissance bastion fort now.
Bourtange in Groningen, Netherlands
Bourtange is a pentagonal Dutch star fort, rebuilt to its state of 1740 to 1750, so its plan and ramparts match Naarden's walls in outline. The village inside was rebuilt too, so the fort matches Naarden better at the walls than at the centre. Naarden's stepped brick gables and red tile roofs show once the frame takes in the town, so keep the shot on the bastions and the water. Try searching bastions and water now.
