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Nijmegan, The Netherlands(2019)
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October 2019
Path along the River
The Holocaust Memorial
The main street was built on top of
the original Roman road

Excavations unearth Roman graves
On the way to St Stephen's Church
The City Gate
The Main Square where Christmas Markets are held
The Park at Castle Hill
Victory Angel Memorial
Chapel of St Nicholas
The Chapel of St Nicholas

Art Museum depicting the City
A "coffee shop"
Each evening this bridge provides a memorial
to the liberation of the town during WWII
The near side of the town was freed
from the Nazis in the fall of 1944,
but winter delayed the allied forces access to the far side

Now when the bridge is lighted at night,
it is done is a slow sequence
at the speed at which the allied tanks
progressed over the river in 1945
Sailing up the Rhine away from Nijmegan toward Cologne