At all times the old town wears from this point of view an interesting and romantic air, but never so much as at evening.
Some versions of "Lohengrin" set the story at Nymwegen; but the Lohengrin monument is at Kleef, a few miles above the confluence of the Rhine and the Waal, the river on which Nymwegen stands.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who was at Nymwegen in 1716, drew an odd comparison between that town and the English town of Nottingham.

If Edinburgh is the modern Athens there is no reason why Nottingham should not be the English Nymwegen.

Lady Mary writes to her friend Sarah Chiswell: "If you were with me in this town, you would be ready to expect to receive visits from your Nottingham friends.

No two places were ever more resembling; one has but to give the Maese the name of the Trent, and there is no distinguishing the prospects--the houses, like those of Nottingham, built one above another, and are intermixed in the same manner with trees and gardens.

The tower they call Julius Caesar's has the same situation with Nottingham Castle; and I cannot help fancying I see from it the Trent-field, Adboulton, &c., places so well known to us.