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De Fryske Marren

De Fryske Marren is a municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands.

De Fryske Marren
De Fryske Marren · Wikimedia Commons
The place

De Fryske Marren is a municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It was established 1 January 2014 and consists of the former municipalities of Gaasterlân-Sleat, Lemsterland, Skarsterlân and parts of Boarnsterhim, all four of which were dissolved on the same day. The municipality is located in the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, and has a population of 51,778 and a combined area of 559.93 km2 (216.19 sq mi).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around De Fryske Marren

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.

  1. 01
    Puzelmuseum

    The Puzzle Museum is a museum in Joure in The Netherlands. It can be visited by appointment.

    3.2 km · museum in the Netherlands · 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.

Do

Things to do

As the region is nearly literally drowning in water, it should not come as a surprise that water sports are a popular activity. Whether you're looking for a canoe (kano) or kayak rental, windsurfing school or general sailboat rental, a watersportcentrum shouldn't be hard to come across.

From Wikivoyage: De Fryske Marren, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Bij de Luts

    Meerweg 3, Balk,.

  2. 02
    De Koepoort

    Koestraat 42, Sloten,.

  3. 03
    Taveerne 't Bolwerk

    Voorstreek 116/117, Sloten, info@restauranthetbolwerk.nl.

  4. 04
    De Zeven Wouden

    Voorstreek 120, Sloten, info@dezevenwouden.com.

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Go there

Getting to De Fryske Marren

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 56 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 100 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 145 km
  • Groningen → De Fryske Marren
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €8–11
  • Amsterdam → De Fryske Marren
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €12–16
  • Rotterdam → De Fryske Marren
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for De Fryske Marren

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    64 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    549 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    562 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    741 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    765 km

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