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Tilburg, in the heart of Brabant

Friday, 5 December 2014 - 04:37 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant. Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout. Tilburg University is located in Tilburg, as are Avans University of Applied Sciences and Fontys University of Applied Sciences. Tilburg has nearly 30.000 students at one of these universities.

A 10 day-long funfair, the largest of the Benelux, is held in July each year. The Monday of fair week is called “Roze Maandag” (Pink Monday), and is gay-oriented, though also enjoyed by many heterosexuals. There are three railway stations within the municipality: Tilburg, Tilburg Universiteit and Tilburg Reeshof. The tallest building in Tilburg is the Westpoint tower.

The economy was concentrated on wool industry for centuries, however, since the 1960s, Tilburg makes more progress in having different kinds of industries. The most known are the insurance companies like Interpolis and CZ, and the transportation/distribution industries which came in Tilburg for being in the geographical center of the Benelux-countries.

Tilburg is an interesting, vivid and warm city, surrounded by beautiful nature areas like Moerenburg, De Loonse and Drunense Duinen, Campina and De Utrecht. There’s a lively city centre, offering well known brands but small, specialised shops as well. And of course there are large companies like Fuji, Goodyear, Björn Borg, Interpolis. More on present-day Tilburg and the corporate line followed by the Tilburg city council is to be found in the article on Tilburg, on the Tilburg City site. Higher Education is of significant importance, with Tilburg University attracting scholars from all over the world. Tilburg University was founded in 1927 and Tilburg is a fully accredited government financed university with almost 12,000 students. Tilburg university (motto: “Understanding Society”) specialises in the social sciences and humanities and has five faculties. De Koningshoeven Brewery is in Berkel-Enshot, which is part of Tilburg.

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