In 1717 Tsar Peter the Great came to Maastricht on his way from Aachen to Nijmegen. He was received royally, visited the new fortress of Sint Pieter and spent the night in the former abbey of Val Dieu on Bokstraat along the Maas, at that time the house of alderman Paul Kerens. The building was demolished in 1849 during the construction of the canal to Liege, and this doorway may well have come from there.
300 years later that visit was commemorated in 2017 with a new memorial plaque.
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