Doetinchem, Zevenaar, Millingen aan de Rijn

Two friends, Toos and Bertje devised and walked the Pieterpad between 1978 and 1983. A long-distance walking route (500 km) from Pieterburen in northern Groningen to Sint-Pietersberg in southern Limburg in 26 stages that are easily accessible by public transport and where you can stay overnight. The scenery along the way is hugely varied, but equally beautiful everywhere.

Where you can walk you can also cycle, and we wouldn't be Efita Cycling if we didn't set out some great cycle routes inspired by the Pieterpad for you. We made 14 routes totalling almost 1,300 km along all the places on the Pieterpad. We did make circles of them so that you always return to your starting point. This is section 8 and leads from Braamt to Millingen aan de Rijn.

A nice present: the bishop of Utrecht was offered the fortified town of Deutinkem with church in the 9th century. Some two centuries later, a city wall was built around it and in 1236 Doetinchem was granted city rights. Zevenaar is slightly older as a town, it only got city rights in 1487. For a very long time, Millingen aan de Rijn was called just Millingen. When ‘on the Rhine’ was added in 1954, it did cause some comment: the village is in fact located on the Bijlandsch canal...