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Castricum

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Castricum

2 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.

  1. 01
    Marquette Castle

    Castle in Heemskerk, Netherlands

    3 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hortus Bulborum

    Botanical garden of historical ornamental bulb plants in Limmen, North Holland, The Netherlands

    2.4 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Castricum

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 27 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 68 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 131 km
Stations
Uitgeest railway station, 3.7 km · Castricum railway station, 800 m
  • Rotterdam → Castricum
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · €9–13
    GuideToday
  • Eindhoven → Castricum
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €16–22
    GuideToday
  • Groningen → Castricum
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · €19–26
    GuideToday
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Castricum

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 Castricum. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
  • Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
  • Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).

From Wikivoyage: Heemskerk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2018-11.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    83 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    461 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    649 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    659 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    722 km

If you know how people move in Castricum – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Castricum

Castricum is 24 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Uitgeestmunicipality in the Netherlands3.5 km
  • Limmenvillage in Castricum, the Netherlands3.1 km
  • Bakkumvillage in Castricum, the Netherlands1.4 km
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