Studying and living in Venlo

Do you already know what you are going to do? Whether you are moving into a student room, looking for a place with friends, or staying at home for a while, in Venlo you'll always find a place that suits you. The city offers a nice mix of student housing, studios, and rooms. And importantly, they are affordable, centrally located, and often within walking distance of your study. That's the advantage of a smaller student city!

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Living in Venlo – your second home

Whether you plan to move into a student room, live with friends, or stay at home for a while: in Venlo, you'll always find a place that suits you. The city offers a great mix of student housing, studios, and rooms; affordable, centrally located, and often within walking distance of your education.

Most students live in or around the city center. Here, you are close to everything Venlo has to offer: cozy cafés, the Maasboulevard, shops, and sports facilities. But in surrounding neighborhoods like ’t Ven, Blerick, and Tegelen, you will also find quiet living spaces with lots of greenery and good connections to the city and your education.

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A city full of character and coziness

Small and cozy, that's studying in Venlo. Not that Venlo is a small city, on the contrary, but when you come to study in Venlo, everything is within reach: your education, your room, your favorite coffee shop, a store for some 'retail therapy', a museum for inspiration, a nature reserve for a breather, and of course that one café where you blow off steam after your lectures.

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Experience the vibrant center of Venlo

The city center of Venlo is the beating heart of your student life. From a quick bite to a drink at the pub, there's always a place in Venlo where it's lively. The terraces on the Markt, the cafes on the Parade or by the Maas: in Venlo, you create memories for a lifetime!

Milk and Cookies

Coffeelovers

Bagels & Beans

Mocca Coffee Company

Restobar Sin

Café BLVD

Discover all the food and drink spots

Together we make the difference.

Venlo is not an anonymous student city. It is a city where people know each other, help, organize, and celebrate together. You notice it on the street, in the supermarket, at your sports club, and your education. Here, you are not just a student because whoever lives here becomes a bit of a Venlo resident. A thinker and a doer. Someone who enjoys life and looks forward to the future.

Discover the DNA of Venlo

A city that lives day and night

In Venlo, we love happiness (gezelligheid). After a busy day of studying, you can count on there being something happening somewhere in Venlo.

Café Restaurant Central

Locomotief

Café de Paris

Café Bar John Doe

Café Grenswerk

De Lange

Baja Beach Bar

De Witte

Venlo: for all your parties and gatherings

When you think of Venlo, you naturally think of 'vastelaovend'. But even for the rest of the year, the people of Venlo (and therefore you!) don't say 'no' to a party.

Stereo Sunday

The energetic dance festival of Southern Netherlands, in Julianapark in Venlo

Op Dronk Wine Festival

Enjoy a wide selection of delicious wines, flavorful snacks and dishes, and live entertainment in the park!

Club Hacienda

On July 18th Club Hacienda will transform Parking P1 VVV-Venlo into their own Club Hacienda Festival. Hacienda is known for their hostings at Stereo Sunday, Solar Weekend Festival and last but not least two crazy sold out editions at Foodhall MOUT. For their festival, we have the honour of hosting the official afterparty here at Grenswerk.

BlïerOck

Voor de 15e keer het gezelligste festival van Blerick

Zomerparkfeest

Enjoy four days of music, theater, and culture during the free Summer Park Festival in Julianapark.

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Dancefloor Classics

Get ready for an evening full of glitter, groove, and unforgettable classics!✨ On Saturday, September 19th, Grenswerk transforms into the ultimate retro dancefloor during Dancefloor Classics! From the funky beats of Chic and Earth, Wind & Fire to the biggest hits of ABBA, Prince, Madonna, Bee Gees, Dan Hartman, Trammps, Tavares, and many others.

Gipmans Young Plants Kwaakerrun

Start je hardloopseizoen met een sportieve uitdaging tijdens de Gipmans Young Plants Kwaakerrun

Club Zer00s

After a sold-out first edition, a return was of course inevitable! Everything you used to have on repeat, everything you went wild to during your first nights out, everything you secretly still sing along to: at Club Zer00s, we play everything that mattered when you were still downloading mp3s from LimeWire and styling your hair with a cheap flat iron. From Rihanna to Tiësto, from Britney to Sean Paul, and from Snoooooop! to Def Rhymz – at Club Zer00s they all blast from the speakers again! Come dance under our own Umbrellas and show our life-sized :dancingbanana: that you and your friends still have it!

Popronde Venlo

Dive into the city and perhaps discover new musical talent!

VroegZat

VroegZat brings nightlife back to the evening! Just as much partying, but nice and early so you can go to bed at a normal time, leaving you feeling fit the next day: win-win. Perfect for those in their thirties and forties who have kids at their bedside the next morning or sports obligations, but also for anyone who just feels like partying hard early.