Editing Deventer (section)

===Sights===
[[File:Deventer, die Waage.jpg|thumb|De Waag]]
* The Grote Kerkhof square (Grand Churchyard).
* The Saint [[Lebuïnuskerk]] (St. Lebuin's Church) in [[Gothic style]], with ceiling paintings and an organ. Its tower can be climbed in summer.
* The City Hall with a façade built in 1693 in [[Dutch Baroque architecture|Dutch Baroque style]].
* The Brink (market square) with houses, shops, and cafes dating from 1575 to 1900. The market square is also the centre of Deventer nightlife. Alongside this square there is the Bussink "Koekhuisje", where the honey-cake Deventer Koek is sold. Markets take place every Friday (including one on Good Friday, following a medieval tradition) and Saturday.
* The Waag (Weighing-house) on the edge of the Brink square, built in 1550 and restored in 2003. The Deventer City Museum is housed inside the Waag. The Museum's collections include industrial and trading history, paintings by [[Gerard Terborch]] and [[Han van Meegeren]], silver objects, and prehistoric findings). [[Thea Beckman]]'s novel ''Het wonder van Frieswijck'' ("The Frieswijck Miracle") features the Waag.
** On the outer wall of the Waag hung until 2016 a large kettle that is over 500 years old, said to have been used for a [[public execution]] in the late [[Middle Ages]]; a man who had produced counterfeit coins was cooked to death in it. According to local tradition, there are holes in the kettle shot by footmen of [[Napoleon]]'s army around 1809. In 2017 the kettle has been placed inside the building, at the entrance of the museum.
* The Speelgoedmuseum ([[Toy]] Museum) behind the Waag, housed in an old house in the city called ''De Drie Haringen'' ('The Three Herrings').
* The [[Great Synagogue of Deventer]] in [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Neo-Renaissance style]] with [[Moorish architecture|Moorish]] influences.
* The medieval [[St Nicholas Church, Deventer|Bergkerk]] (Mountain Church), on top of a small hill (old river dune), now a place for expositions and concerts.
* The old streets around the Bergkerk, known as Bergkwartier (Mountain Quarter) situated on and around the old river dune.
* The Broederenkerk (Friars church) in Gothic and neo-Gothic style
* The Stadsarchief en Athenaeumbibliotheek (City Archive and Athenaeum Library), the oldest scientific library of the Netherlands (founded in 1560).
* De Proosdij in the Sandrasteeg is the oldest stone house of the Netherlands still in use. The earliest parts dating back to around 1130.
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File:Lebuinuskerk2011a.JPG|[[Lebuïnuskerk, Deventer|St. Lebuinus Church]]
File:Stadhuis Deventer voorgevel.jpg|Deventer City Hall
File:Voorgevel van de voormalige synagoge te Deventer; in de geveltop staan de Tien Geboden in het Hebreeuws - Deventer - 20337911 - RCE.jpg|[[Great Synagogue of Deventer]]
File:Bergkerk Deventer, now in use as an art exhibition center - panoramio.jpg|[[St Nicholas Church, Deventer|St. Nicholas Church]]
File:Interieur, aanzicht orgel, orgelnummer 337 - Deventer - 20369286 - RCE.jpg|Interior of Broederenkerk
File:Klooster 3 Deventer.jpg|City Archives and Athenaeum Library
File:Schouwburg Deventer.JPG|Theater of Deventer
File:Molen Bolwerksmolen (1).jpg|The 19th-century Bolwerksmolen
</gallery>