Walking tour in Leeuwarden

A walking tour in Leeuwarden is the best way to discover the city. We’d love to show you around personally. You can book our guides for a private guided tour for your own company or join one of our regular open free walking tours. Don’t forget to sign up beforehand. These are our most popular tours:

The Guides at A Guide to Leeuwarden

Join the best guides of Leeuwarden

Guiding is a profession! That is why we work with professional guides who know how to tell a story. Do not expect a standard story, with our guide you will really experience Leeuwarden! The A Guide to Leeuwarden guides will make you laugh, amazed, and give you the occasional goosebumps. For this reason these Leeuwarden city walks have been the best rated tours in Leeuwarden for years!

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Koos D
September 28, 2026
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Excellent Excellent guide, enthousiastic and a lot of knowledge on the History of Leeuwarden
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FC_Amstelveen
September 3, 2026
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With (Top)Guide (Henk) to Leeuwarden you"ll have a Top City Tour With Henk Leutscher as our TopGuide to Leeuwarden we and our guests had a top experience exploring the jewish past and present in the capital of Friesland (NL) Leeuwarden, during which our interest in the the former jewish life was presented in a truly complete overview. During the city walk many still recognizable traces of the rich jewish life before WW2 and the very special memorials recognizing the emptiness left after the shoah were shown, Added with the many personal stories about so many jewish inhabitants, that never came back, presented by our guide Henk enriched our knowledge about Leeuwarden. Henk proved that in visiting a city and its history with a well knowledgeable guide your visit becomes a trip never to forget.
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Arno V
August 12, 2026
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Interesting discoveries Christina was very knowledgeable and took us to hidden places that we normally not would have seen.
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Nick P
June 25, 2026
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A brilliant guide Henk took us round parts of the town we would not have found by ourselves. His English was perfect and he had an amazing knowledge of the detailed history of Leeuwarden, after 13 years’ experience as a guide. He was also very entertaining — and thoughtful guiding us to shady places where we could be comfortable (older people in a heat wave).
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Moni Public
June 21, 2026
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Don't miss this tour! just now New When in Leeuwarden, don't miss this tour! Tour guide Henk took us on a journey in his beautiful city, showing us the highlights and street art. Peppered with humor and wit, it was a tour to remember!! He also gave tips onthings to do after the tour, of which we did take advantage. Don't miss this introduction to Leeuwarden 👊🏻🦁
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Hélène J
April 18, 2026
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Great tour! This was a terrific tour! Henk was a very enthusiastic guide, sharing gems of stories on Leeuwarden that we would never have known about had we not taken this tour. Highly recommend!
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Louise Buckley
September 5, 2026
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Walking Tour in Leeuwarden Leonie was our guide on the walking tour (free) today. Leonie was a wealth of information and her history teaching background came in very handy. This is a great trip to do at the start of your stay in Leeuwarden as it includes a snapshot of some items that you can explore further if you so desire. Booking is easy through the very helpful staff at the visitor centre and we booked the English guide at 12 noon on a Saturday. It’s the only time for English unless you book a private guide. Hearing the stories in your own language makes sure you don’t miss out on all the extra information.
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Ramona Serrano
June 21, 2026
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When in Leeuwarden, don't miss this tour! Tour guide Henk took us on a journey in his beautiful city, showing us the highlights and street art. Peppered with humor and wit, it was a tour to remember!! He also gave tips onthings to do after the tour, of which we did take advantage. Don't miss this introduction to Leeuwarden 👊🏻🦁
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Tom Everest
April 26, 2026
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Highly recommended. Zenon was a great tour guide and gave the history of the city while taking us to parts of Leeuwarden that we would not have seen or understood otherwise. Really helped to make sense of the place and brought it to life.
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Norma Elgersma
April 21, 2026
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Leonie gave a great walking tour sharing lots of info about Leeuwarden. Would highly recommend! This was Mara Hari’s house.
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Joost van Nes
January 31, 2026
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We had a great english speaking tour (the leeuwarden free tour) our guide (Kevin) was great and very knowledgeable. He threw in some history fun facts because he knew we liked it. Overall great experience and guide, definitely worth doing. We will be doing the dutch version very soon.

Listen to the best stories on this walking tour in Leeuwarden

On a walking tour in Leeuwarden, our guides tell the best stories and will show you the most beautiful spots of the city. The guide will take you along hidden courtyards, the oldest buildings of the city and the most beautiful murals. On this walking tour, Leeuwarden really comes alive. Below you can see which people joined us in the past few days. Will you be joining us soon? Book a walking tour here.

A Walking tour in Leeuwarden with a theme

Most people book a general Leeuwarden Private Tour to give you the best introduction about Leeuwarden. But it is also fun to do a themed walking tour to discover Leeuwarden in a different way. You can book these walking tours as private tours any day of the week.

Second World War walking tour in Leeuwarden
Street Art Tour Leeuwarden
Women of Leeuwarden Tour

More themed walking tours in Leeuwarden are possible

Our guides have developed a lot of themed walking tours in Leeuwarden over the past years. So it is also possible to go more into depth. The tours mentioned below are more specific and not every guide can do these tours. So if you want to do one of these tours, then please send us a message first to see what is possible.

Mata Hari Tour
Beer walking tour in Leeuwarden
Traces of Slavery History walking tour in Leeuwarden

– Typical Friesland Tour
– Leeuwarden Nassau Tour
– Art Nouveau Tour
– Jewish Leeuwarden
– Middle Ages Tour
– Leeuwarden Filmtour
– Eleven alleys Tour
– Halloween / spooky tour
Do you have other wishes? Then please contact us as more is possible. We have developed many tours together with other partners like Festivals, Museums, Theaterplays etc. So if you want to work together, please get in touch.

City walk Leeuwarden with a route map

For anyone who wants to explore Leeuwarden further on their own, we have also created a number of route maps to further explore Leeuwarden on foot or by bike. These route maps have been created to complement our regular guided city walks. Some of these route maps are for sale in the city and we also have a number of free city walks through Leeuwarden that you can download. View all route maps here.

Route met stadswandeling om zelf te doen