Alphen
Alphen was a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland.
Alphen was a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland. It consisted of the village of Alphen; now called Alphen aan den Rijn. That village was much smaller than the current town; the municipality only contained the part south of the Oude Rijn.
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Worth seeing in and around Alphen
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting
On 9 April 2011, six people were killed by a gunman who entered the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, a town approximately 33 kilometres south-west of Amsterdam. Using a rifle, 24-year-old Tristan van der Vlis shot several people and then killed himself, reportedly with a different firearm.
2.3 km · shooting in an Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall · Wikipedia - 02Archeon
Archeon is an archeological open air and living museum in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.
1.5 km · historical theme park in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03Vogelpark Avifauna
Vogelpark Avifauna is a large bird park in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the western Netherlands. It was the first dedicated bird park in the world.
1.3 km · bird park in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alphen
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 21 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 24 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 90 km
- Stations
- Alphen aan den Rijn railway station, 500 m
- Eindhoven → Alphen36 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · €5–7
- Maastricht → Alphen87 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · €11–15
- Groningen → Alphen222 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · €27–37
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alphen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alphen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are no ferry or waterbus services to Gouda, but when you own a boat, there are facilities to stay in Gouda.
From Wikivoyage: Gouda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Alphen
Alphen is 25 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alphen aan den Rijnmunicipality in the Netherlands600 m
- Koudekerk aan den Rijnfarm village in the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland, Netherlands3.6 km
- Gnephoekhuman settlement in the Netherlands2.2 km
- Ridderbuurthuman settlement in the Netherlands3.3 km