Groningen is a metropolitan city on the north of the Netherlands. It combines the antique with the new, the exhaustive with the small, the agitation with the quietness. In the Herestraat street and the Grote Markt you can find idyllic places: the Hoge der Aa with it's ancient deposits and cellars, the Prinsentuin garden or the Martinikhof square behind a tower with the same name. Groningen is a college town and a city full of cyclists.