International four-day walking event Nijmegen and surroundings
Recreation & Sports
The third week of July we walk the 4Daagse together, the greatest walking performance tour in the world!
More than 45,000 participants, with more than 70 different nationalities, from 11 years to 90+, come to Nijmegen every year to walk for four days 30, 40 or 50 kilometers in the Waal city and its beautiful, wooded surroundings. All with the same goal: the coveted 4Daagse cross.
1909: The very first starting shot
The 4Daagse dates back 115 years. Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1909, the starting gun sounded for a walk that would become The Walk of the World. The idea to walk for four days came from a military man. The goal: to build up fitness among soldiers. A total of 296 soldiers and ten civilians set off from ten barracks over no less than fifteen courses.
The 2025 walking four-day event is from Tuesday, July 15 to Friday, July 18.
