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Extract from the Groningen Travel Guides:
Nominally a fiefdom of the Bishops of Utrecht from 1040 until 1536, the northern city of
GRONINGEN
was once an important centre of trade. Heavily bombed in World War II, it is an architectural jumble with few notable sights, but its large, prestigious university gives it a cosmopolitan feel quite unexpected in this rustic part of the country. The centre of town is
Grote Markt
, a large open space that was badly damaged by wartime bombing and has been reconstructed with little imagination. At one corner is the
Martinikerk
(Easter-Nov Tues-Sat noon-5pm; ?1.10), a beacon of architectural sanity in the...
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