{"id":15539,"date":"2025-02-27T21:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/de-via-belgica-als-echte-marathon\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:36:35","slug":"de-via-belgica-als-echte-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/de-via-belgica-als-echte-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Via Belgica as a True Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"categorie":33,"afbeelding":12805,"auteur":"Harry Lindelauf","fotografie":"Marathon Via Belgica","contentbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"In Roman times, the journey from the bridge over the Worm near Rimburg to the bridge over the Meuse in Maastricht would have taken a full day of steady walking. Nowadays, you can hike the route in stages \u2014 but it can also be done more sportively: the fastest runners of the Via Belgica Marathon on Sunday, May 25, will need no more than 2.5 to 3 hours."},{"acf_fc_layout":"foto_tekst","foto":12797,"tekst":"The third edition of the marathon starts at 10 a.m. in Rimburg, at the spot where the modern version of the Via Belgica route crosses the Worm and the German-Dutch border. From there, the route goes to Snowworld in Landgraaf and through the Caumerbeek Valley to Coriovallum, or modern-day Heerlen. As a tribute, the route passes the Roman bathhouse and continues to the site on Steinweg in Voerendaal, where the remains of the large Roman villa Ten Hove were discovered."},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_foto","tekst":"<h3>Goudsberg<\/h3>\r\nFrom Voerendaal, the route climbs via Craubeek, Termaar, and Koulen to the Goudsberg. 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