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Extract from the Maastricht Travel Guides:
Situated in a thin finger of land that reaches down between Belgium and Germany,
MAASTRICHT
is one of the most delightful cities in the Netherlands, located firmly in the heart of Europe and quite different from the waterland centres of the north. A cosmopolitan place, where three languages happily coexist, it's also one of the oldest towns in the country. The first settlers here were Roman, when Maastricht became an important stop on the trade route between Cologne and the coast, and the later legacy of Charlemagne - whose capital was at nearby Aachen - is manifest in two of the best Romanesque churches in the Low Countries.
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