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De Blesse

De Blesse is a village in Weststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

De Blesse
De Blesse · Wikimedia Commons
The place

De Blesse is a village in Weststellingwerf in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 800 in 2017. Its windmill, De Mars, was rebuilt in 1997. Before 1956, the village was called Blesse.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to De Blesse

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 47 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 105 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 137 km
  • Groningen → De Blesse
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → De Blesse
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €12–17
  • Rotterdam → De Blesse
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · €18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for De Blesse

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere are no cars allowed in most of the interesting parts of the park, and the main way to get around is by foot, bike, boat or canoe.
  • Get aroundCanoe trip - and excellent way to explore the many waterways and lakes.
  • Get aroundCanoes are inexpensive to rent and available from several places.

From Wikivoyage: Weerribben-Wieden National Park, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    86 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    558 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    559 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    755 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    769 km

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