Ammersoyen Castle walking route

After a cup of coffee at Café restaurant Treurenburg, put on your walking shoes. First you walk along the south bank of the mighty Maas. Then you cross the Maas with a ferry, for a nice round on either side of this turbulent river. Here you are in the Bommelerwaard, which is embraced by the winding Maas and Waal. An island, as it used to be called. The water was cursed when the land flooded again, but blessed when the harvests were plentiful. The route also takes you past Ammersoyen Castle, one of the best preserved moated castles in the Netherlands. During construction, the castle was located in or on the Maas, but in 1354 the course of the river changed. Since then, the main castle has almost always been surrounded by a moat.