By Train

Tilburg has three railway stations.In Tilburg (Centraal) stop sprinters as well as intercity trains.At the other two (Tilburg University and Tilburg Reeshof) only sprinters stop.The latter station was completed in 2003 for the borough Reeshof accessible.Currently lives in Tilburg quarter of this quarter.Intercity trains stop only at Tilburg station CS. From 1970 until early December 2010 was named Station College Station Tilburg West, this name is no longer true in practice, because the west is still Reeshof Station. There are also plans for a fourth station in Berkel-Enschot, the railroad s-Hertogenbosch, Tilburg and Utrecht. Formerly a railroad to Turnhout, the bank now serves as its long-distance trails to Turnhout: the Bel line, through the villages Riel Alphen, Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog Belgian enclave. Tilburg is also on the railroad Tilburg-Eindhoven-Venlo.

By Road

Tilburg is connected by only one national motorway, the A58 (to Breda and Eindhoven).Other important roads include: The N65 (to s-Hertogenbosch) and the A/N261 (to Waalwijk).Unlike many other cities of similar size Tilburg is only one major highway.This is the A58 (Vlissingen - Breda - Eindhoven).However working hard to Tilburg road more accessible. Currently building a ring road around the city.This should be around 2012.Accordingly, it will be started with the upgrading of the route Tilburg West - Dongen - Oosterhout making a direct connection to the A27 will occur.Between 2010 and 2013, the N261 (Tilburg, Waalwijk) converted to highway.Similar plans are also available for the N65 (Vught, Tilburg).

By Bicycle

Tilburg has an excellent network of cycle paths, the so-called Sternet routes. As early as 1975 was the first long-distance cycle route through the city between the Centre and the University: the so-TOF route. Since 1996, there are multiple routes through the city safely and comfortably made​​. Since 2009 Tilburg busy to-tile paths Sternet replacing asphalt paths, which improves the comfort bike. Blaak in 2011/2012 will route a bicycle tunnel under the railway Tilburg-Breda-Rotterdam, making it the REIT and the district education with long walks together. And between the village of Berkel-Enschot Tilburg and Tilburg Loven is a comfortable bicycle tunnel planned under the railroad's-Hertogenbosch-Tilburg.

By Bus

The city bus and local bus network Tilburg T bus is operated by Veolia. The city experimented with free public transport for children and people over 55. The BBA drove the bus before Tilburg Veolia took over. In connection with the Tilburg fair ride the bus through Noordhoek, the bus company and provides complimentary shuttles to parking lots on the outskirts of town.

Roadburn Festival, Tilburg Fair, Tilburg Ten Miles, Gipsy Festival, Nature Brabant Museum, Textile Museum, City Museum Tilburg

Roadburn Festival

is an annual international rock festival in Tilburg in the Netherlands held since 1995.The event will take place in Tilburg from April 12 to 15 at 013 and Midi Theatre.Holland’s very own Roadburn Festival has become Europe’s leading underground festival for psychedelic, avant-garde, doom or any other variation of leftfield sonic pleasures that push the boundaries of music the Roadburn Festival has emerged as an event in its own right.It brings together bands, fans & media from around the world. Despite it’s international acclaim, Roadburn Festival retains an underground vibe and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values.In addition to the music, Roadburn has earned a reputation as having a unique camaraderie between the festivalgoers, bands, organizers and staff, and ranks as one of the best and most laid-back festivals to be experienced. It is one of the festival’s primary goals to make the Roadburn experience second to none, not only for the fans but for the artists as well.

Tilburg Fair

is the largest fair in the Benelux , which is held in the North Brabant location Tilburg.There are every year between 230 and 240 attractions, from home and abroad in a 4.5 km long ribbon through the center of Tilburg. The carnival attracts over one million visitors, making it one of the best attended events in the Netherlands.In 2010 (16 t / m 25 July) was the Tilburg fair 440 years. Although the fair has gone along with time and therefore the majority of modern attractions, shall have the nostalgic fairground, with historic attractions at Willemsplein, maintain a fixed position.The Tilburg fair lasts ten days, the fair ends on the last Sunday of July and start so 10 days earlier on Friday.Since 2009, there is a fair radio. information about the fair and traffic can be heard here. Also known music can be heard. Also many famous DJs take place in the studio that fair to the church on the hill. The transmitter can only listen during the fair on FM 107, just in the region Tilburg.

Tilburg Ten Miles

has been a 1988 annual international running event in Tilburg for both competition and recreational runners. This event is held in early September in and around the center of Tilburg. In the game variant, the distances to walk 10 kilometer and 10 for men and women a mile for the men.

Gipsy Festival

is a festival focused on art and culture of the gypsy community.In 1997, the first International Gypsy Festival at various locations in Tilburg.Musical groups and dancers from Europe, Russia and India have performed at the festival.Outdoor music and dance festival also includes the visual arts , photography and literature.The festival is known for the ever new directions.It reaches composition assignments, brings together various musicians and styles including Sinti, Roma and gadji.It organizes national tours, dance workshops and talent shows and is also the basis of the Gipsy Road Show, a traveling caravan of authentic small caravan, a tent theater, an exhibition, kiosk and catering appropriate.

Nature Brabant Museum

is the natural museum of nature and landscape of Brabant, located at Spoorlaan in Tilburg in the former villa of clothier Guillaume JD Pollet.Nature Brabant is through exhibitions and education appreciation for nature at a wide audience to promote. The museum has three floors of permanent and temporary exhibitions. The permanent exhibition 'The Journey' is about life, from birth to death. The second permanent exhibit, "The Lord of Brabant Out" deals with the nature and the landscape of Brabant. On the ground floor and first floor are two further rooms with changing exhibitions annually. Currently (2011), a special exhibition of domestication can be seen: "Animal or Thing," about the sometimes complex relationship between humans and animals.On the ground floor was built late 2010 a new educational mecca: OO - ZONE, and Discover the Research area for Nature. A mix of open depot museum, an interactive exhibition and workplaces. The special feature of the OO - ZONE is that visitors are researchers: an educational computer program to follow and a onderzoekspas scan, they can open drawers with items that would fit into a workplace.The museum is located diagonally opposite Central Station and opposite the bus station.

Textile Museum

is located in Tilburg Tilburg in the province of North Brabant.The Textile Museum opened in 1958 in a former factory owner's villa and has since 1985 housed in the former textile factory of the firm C. Mommers & Co.Once one of the largest employers in Tilburg. May 2008 the museum reopened after an extensive renovation.Damask weaving in the museum are working Jacquardweefgetouwen, laundry facilities and exhibitions. The "Wool Blanket Factory" shows how the operating machines it produced earlier. How people working in the textiles have experienced, can be seen in a movie. There is also a former factory converted into a workshop. With traditional and modern textile machines that currently produced modern designs for which the public can follow the entire process.The museum displays both the present and the past history of textile manufacturing.

City Museum Tilburg

is a museum in Tilburg Tilburg mainly archaeological and ethnographic objects, business collections and includes paintings. All with regard to the city of Tilburg.Plans to establish a city museum in Tilburg date from the '20s of the 20th century. Here and there were items that the history of the city faced. Some of them are now in the Textile Museum , but this museum tells only one-albeit important-part of the city's history. In 1925 , a commission was established to explore establishing a city museum to investigate. The National Advisory Committee on the museum being revealed a negative opinion, so the plans were put on ice.City Museum Tilburg manages and operates the Pavilion Peerke Donders, a museum for charity. The story of Peerke Thunders is the starting point, but also provides a picture of contemporary works of charity by new 'Golden Peerkes. The Peerke Donders Pavilion - on October 27, 2009, the 200th birthday of Peerke Donders, officially opened by Dr. EHM Hirsch Ballin , the then Minister of Justice .

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