Walking route 11 fountains: Bolsward
About the city walk
If you drive to Bolsward from the provincial capital of Leeuwarden, you will be treated to a beautiful green route, passing villages, meadows and historic windmills. A lovely appetizer before exploring the city. Bolsward is a historic city, with cosy canals and unique churches. The city was founded on three terps, one of which even predates the Christian era. You will find a mishmash of centuries-old façades in different styles, a shopping street along the canal and a town hall that is a work of art in itself. This sixty-minute walk takes you along some of the highlights of Bolsward.
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About the fountain
Bats are intriguing, usefu…
About the city walk
If you drive to Bolsward from the provincial capital of Leeuwarden, you will be treated to a beautiful green route, passing villages, meadows and historic windmills. A lovely appetizer before exploring the city. Bolsward is a historic city, with cosy canals and unique churches. The city was founded on three terps, one of which even predates the Christian era. You will find a mishmash of centuries-old façades in different styles, a shopping street along the canal and a town hall that is a work of art in itself. This sixty-minute walk takes you along some of the highlights of Bolsward.
Easy navigation?
View the route in Google Maps
About the fountain
Bats are intriguing, useful animals that play a crucial role in the ecosystem by preying on insects. In Asian culture, bats symbolise wealth, luck and a blessed old age. Here in the West, they represent both dark forces and a positive, saving force. Take Batman, for example, or the façades of the great cathedrals where bats, in the form of gargoyles, keep demons at bay. Which is wonderfully appropriate to this old, fire-damaged church, the Broerekerk. The stairs on the bat’s back invite visitors to symbolically conquer the bat. And in doing so, to transcend themselves.
Sights on this route
11Fountains Bolsward
Bats are intriguing, useful animals, crucial to the ecological system for their insect hunting. In Asian culture, the bat symbolises wealth, happiness and the blessings of old age.

Broerekerk (church)
The Broerekerk was built in the 13th century as a monastery church of the Friars Minor. The monastery was abandoned and demolished in 1580. The three-aisled church without a tower is a ruin as a result of a fire that took place on 8 May 1980.

St Martin’s Church in Bolsward
St Martin’s Church in Bolsward is a Gothic church. Its substantial gable roof bell tower has dominated the skyline of the city of Bolsward for centuries.

St Martin’s Church in Bolsward
St Martin’s Church in Bolsward
Martinikerk Bolsward
Groot Kerkhof 4
8701 HG Bolsward
Sonnema
At Sonnema we proudly and passionately produce Sonnema Berenburg according to a secret recipe, which Fedde Sonnema developed in 1860.

City Hall of Bolsward
The City Hall of Bolsward is one of the most beautiful gems of Friesland, although it's currently surrounded by scaffolding for renovation purposes. The richly decorated City Hall was built in the 1614-1617 period and designed by Jacob Gysbert.

11Fountains Bolsward
Bats are intriguing, useful animals, crucial to the ecological system for their insect hunting. In Asian culture, the bat symbolises wealth, happiness and the blessings of old age.
