A Guide to Leeuwarden organises walking tours in Leeuwarden. We have been doing this since 2013, offering accessible public Free Walking Tours as well as customized private tours for both groups and schools. Because we believe that the best introduction to Leeuwarden is a personal tour with one of our guides. Meet our team below!
What to expect on our walking tours
Our walking tours last 1.5 hours and you’ll always be accompanied by an enthusiastic guide. On our public walking tours (Leeuwarden Free Tours) and our Leeuwarden Private Tours, our guides always aim to provide a good mix of remarkable buildings, famous Leeuwarden residents, hidden gems and the finest street art. Along the way, our guides will stop to tell you the most fascinating stories. These stories are informative, but also entertaining and often told with a touch of humour. We see it as the best introduction to Leeuwarden.
These tours are accessible to a very wide audience. With us, you won’t be overwhelmed with facts, dates and too many details. A good guide knows how to dose their information. We tell great stories and are also happy to answer any in-depth questions.
Our guides love being around people. They prefer to tell historical stories that focus on people. But they also show you the Leeuwarden of today. There’s a good chance you’ll also get a tip for a fun cultural activity, where to find the most beautiful mural, or where to find the latest coffee shop.
The top-rated walking tours in the north!
The walking tours offered by A Guide to Leeuwarden have been the top-rated tours in Leeuwarden and the whole of the northern Netherlands on Google and TripAdvisor for years! Read all our reviews on our reviews page.
Our Guides
Henk is the founder of A Guide to Leeuwarden. He has lived in Leeuwarden since 2001 and trained as a history teacher there. He then went on two round-the-world trips. In 2013, he set up A Guide to Leeuwarden. Since 2016, he has also been working at the Fries Museum, the Fries Resistance Museum and the Princessehof Ceramics Museum. He has been a full-time guide since 2017. He gives guided tours in Dutch, English and German.
Henk has a bookcase bursting with books on Leeuwarden, loves delving into the archives in search of Art Nouveau architectural drawings, and has read almost everything about the Second World War in Leeuwarden. He also creates maps of Leeuwarden. And when Henk speaks, it seems as though everything comes from… Leeuwarden!
Christina grew up in a small town between Berlin and Hamburg and moved to Leeuwarden in 2011 to study. It didn’t take long before she fell in love with the city’s unique atmosphere and decided to make Leeuwarden her home.
Since 2016, she has been introducing visitors to her adopted hometown in German, Dutch and English. In addition to her work as a city guide, Christina works as a museum educator at the Fries Museum and the Ceramic Museum. She also translates exhibition texts for both museums and is immersed in art, culture and history on a daily basis.
Christina looks forward to sharing her enthusiasm for Leeuwarden and helping you discover the city’s special places and surprising stories.
Kevin grew up in Friesland and has lived in Leeuwarden since 2006. He trained as an English teacher here. He has been a guide with A Guide to Leeuwarden since early 2017. Being half English himself, he can give tours in Dutch, but he enjoys the English tours the most. Due to his background as an improvisational actor at the Leeuwarden Man met Snor he adds his theatrical flair to the tours by telling historical stories that capture the imagination.
Charlotte is born in Austria and moved to Leeuwarden to study Animal Management in 2010. Besides her knowledge about animals and nature, she also knows her way around Leeuwarden. She is a guide at A Guide to Leeuwarden since the summer of 2015 and she is happy to show you Leeuwarden on the Leeuwarden Tour, the Street Art Tour or the Beer Tour. While German is her mother language, she can also show you around in English or Dutch. She’s also a guide in the Fries Museum.
Zenon grew up in a Frisian village and moved to Leeuwarden in 2011 to study. He has held various jobs here and has been a city guide since early 2018. Since 2021, he has also been working at the Fries Museum, the Fries Resistance Museum and the Princessehof Ceramics Museum. Since then, he has been a full-time guide. He gives guided tours in English, Dutch and Frisian.
Leonie has lived in Leeuwarden since 2002 and knows the city like no other. She trained as a history teacher here and taught history in secondary schools for many years. She has been a city guide since 2022 and leads tours in both Dutch and English.
Her passion for history and storytelling goes even further. Leonie is also a guide at the Fries Museum, the Fries Resistance Museum and the Princessehof Ceramics Museum. She takes great pleasure in developing new educational materials for exhibitions there. She also runs projects on the Second World War in Friesland at primary schools.
As a reader, she moves effortlessly from history to philosophy, from fiction to psychology, and she also has a great love of music.
Kimberley has been living in Leeuwarden for almost 20 years. She ended up staying in this little town because of her studies and work.
As well as being a city guide, she also gives guided tours at the Fries Museum and the Ceramics Museum. She is also a singer and theatre producer.
She gives guided tours in English and Dutch, with the occasional bit of Leeuwarden slang thrown in – you can be sure of that!
Marcel became a guide at A Guide to Leeuwarden in the beginning of 2017. He is our only born and raised Leeuwarder. He moved to Groningen and Barcalona to study Roman Languages and Culture. And later also got his degree in English. Since the end of 2016 he returned to his old hometown. Besides being a guide he works as a Spanish and English teacher. It’s no wonder that he likes to do walking tours in Dutch and those two languages.
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