BredaThe Nassau city
Measured from 100+ plays across 3 walked routes: in Breda, you pass a place with a story every 200 metres.
Ranked #4 of 4 Netherlands big cities
2026 edition · scores vs all indexed cities · measured 2026-08-21 · scored on 6 of 8 measures · how we measure
Depth25/100
34 places with a story
2 historical figures
Density75/100
a story every 200 m
median along a route
Character47/100
faith & churches
typical story: 1905 · early modern
Pulse39/100
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Breda, measured
The scores
Ranked against
| What we measure | Breda | Score out of 100 | Rank | Global leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depth | ||||
| Places with a storyspots where a route tells you what happened there | 34 | 30 | #60 of 71 | London (United Kingdom) · 594 |
| Historical figuresreal people you meet in its stories | 2 | 13 | #59 of 68 | London (United Kingdom) · 184 |
| Hours of storieshow long its stories take to read, end to end | 0.4h | 32 | #50 of 71 | London (United Kingdom) · 7h |
| Density | ||||
| How often you pass a storymetres from one story to the next | 200 m | 75 | #4 of 71 | Williamsburg (United States) · 100 m |
| Character | ||||
| Years its stories coverfrom its oldest story to its newest | 467 yrs | 47 | #50 of 70 | London (United Kingdom) · 1025 yrs |
| Pulse | ||||
| Instagrammabilityhow often players photograph this city | — | needs more plays here before photo habits can be measured | — | Sydney (Australia) |
| Group outingsof every 100 plays, how many bring a group of 3 or more | 14 in 100 | 39 | #42 of 69 | Houston (United States) · 32 in 100 |
| International visitorsshare of player reviews written in a foreign language | — | needs more reviews here before it can be measured | — | Venice (Italy) · 97% |
How to read this table›
How to read it: each score is out of 100, measured against a fixed scale that is the same for every city and every edition. Breda's 34 on places with a story scores 30, and it scores 30 on any page you find it. The switch above changes who it is ranked against, not the scores: right now that is all 80 indexed cities (19 countries so far). Breda is scored on 6 of the 8 measures: its overall score averages those 6, and the greyed measures stay out of the average rather than counting against it. Ranks compare cities of a similar size. What a city's stories are about has no better or worse, so themes and eras aren't scored. Instagrammability is shown as a score only; how it's calculated is on the methodology page.
The medal table
What Breda wins
- Most parks & leisure among the Netherlands' big cities· 24% of its stories
- Most royalty & nobility among the Netherlands' big cities· 26% of its stories
- Stories closest together among the Netherlands' big cities· a story every 200 m
Won against the other big cities of Netherlands in the 2026 edition. See the full table on the country page.
Character
What its stories are about
- faith & churches29%
- royalty & nobility26%
- parks & leisure24%
- arts & culture21%
- crime & dark history12%
- industry & modern era12%
Out of Breda's 34 places with a story, the share whose story touches each theme. One story can touch several.
Character
Which centuries you walk through
- Early modern33%
- Early 20th century27%
- Contemporary20%
- Post-war13%
- 19th century7%
When Breda's stories happen (44% of them mention a year).
Depth
34 stories wait on its streets. Here are three
The Nassau Monument (or Baroniemonument) at Valkenberg Park’s entrance is a royal tribute with a "petty" twist. Built in 1905, it features…
Renaissance influence The Lords of Breda lived in the Castle of Breda. Hendrik van Nassau for instance. For diplomatic missions he often…
The statue of this man on the roof is called: De Wegkijker, (The Look aWay ). The artist Maarten Koreman created it…
Depth
Figures you meet on Breda's streets
See all Netherlands figures →Depth
Every Breda place with a story, on one map
Each pin is a place whose story a Questo route tells. Tap one for the quest that tells it. See an empty street that deserves a pin? The form at the bottom of this page adds your story to the editors' queue.
Walk Breda's stories yourself
Every route in the city: See everything in Breda
Where next after Breda?
How does Breda compare?
Put Breda head-to-head with any city in the index, measure by measure, from real walking data.
Quick answers
- What is Breda like to explore on foot?
- Breda has 34 places with a story across 3 self-guided Questo routes, with a story every 200 metres of walking on average. Its stories lean towards faith & churches and royalty & nobility.
- Which historical period defines Breda?
- 33% of Breda's dated stories come from the early modern period; its oldest dated story reaches back to 1550.
- How is this measured?
- From Questo's own walked routes and player activity in Breda: 100+ plays and 100+ reviews. Full method on the City Stories Index methodology page, 2026 edition.
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For press and citation
- Walking a Questo route in Breda, you pass a place with a story every 200 metres on average.
- 33% of Breda's dated stories come from the early modern period.
- Breda's typical story happens in 1905: the median year across its dated stories, which span 467 years.
- Roughly 14 of every 100 plays in Breda is a group outing of three or more people, measured from invited multi-device sessions over the last 12 months.
Copy any line as it stands: for an article, a post, or an argument at dinner. Attribution: Questo City Stories Index (2026 edition), with a link to this page. Method and sample sizes on the methodology page.
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