Britsum
Britsum is a village in the municipality of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands.

Britsum is a village in the municipality of Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. Britsum was built on an artificial bank (terp) running along the eastern side of the former Middelzee. The church, built around 1300, is also located on this bank. It had a population of about 910 inhabitants in January 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Britsum
One place 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.
- 01Protestant church of Wyns
The Protestant church of Wyns or Saint Vitus Church is a religious building in Wyns, Netherlands, one of the medieval churches in Friesland. The nave and quintuple closed choir date from c.
3.3 km · church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Britsum
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 55 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 125 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 170 km
- Groningen → Britsum52 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €7–10
- Amsterdam → Britsum115 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €14–20
- Rotterdam → Britsum172 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €21–30
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No local-transport research exists yet for Britsum
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 Britsum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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