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Duiven

Duiven is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.

Duiven
Duiven · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Duiven is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. Duiven's name can be translated into English to mean "pigeons" or "doves". Although the coat of arms and logo of the municipality feature pigeons, the name is etymologically related to "dunes". The flag of the municipality of Duiven was granted and adopted on 25 June 1954.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Duiven

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
    De Buitenmolen

    The Buitenmolen is a tower mill in Zevenaar, Netherlands that was restored to working order in 1970. The mill was built in the beginning of the sixteenth century and is listed as a Rijksmonument, number 40427.

    3.5 km · tower mill in Zevenaar, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Huize Sevenaer

    Huize Sevenaer is a castle farm in Zevenaar, the Netherlands. The estate has existed since the 14th century and since 1947 has been the last remaining fully operational castle farm in the country, and one of the few remaining in Europe.

    4 km · building in Zevenaar, 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    De Boetselaersborg

    Het Kattenburg 6, NL-7041 AS 's-Heerenberg.

  2. 02
    Kasteel de Kemnade

    De Kemnade 1, NL-7048 AC Wijnbergen, dekemnade@gmail.com.

  3. 03
    Huize de Byvanck

    The Byvanck is a non-accessible, privately owned castle.

  4. 04
    Kasteel Huis Bergh
  5. 05
    Muntwal
  6. 06
    Bergh

    Marktstraat, NL-7041 AH 's-Heerenberg, info@erfgoedbergh.nl.

From Wikivoyage: Duiven, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Kartbaan Duiven

    It offers an indoor track with many sharp corners and a difference in elevation, as both the ground floor and first floor are part of the track.

  2. 02
    Rhederlaag

    Rhederlaag is a recreational water between Giesbeek and the river IJssel.

  3. 03
    Stroombroek

    Stroombroek is a lake created after the area was drained for sand needed for the construction of the A18.

  4. 04
    De Nevelhorst

    Nevelhorstpad 2, NL-6941 Didam.

From Wikivoyage: Duiven, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restaurant Vlees en Vis

    Kerkweg 2, NL-6905 AW Zevenaar,.

  2. 02
    Ask de Chef Zevenaar

    Grietsestraat 51, NL-6901 GS Zevenaar,.

  3. 03
    Restaurant de Revolutie

    4 't Raedthuys, Rijksweg 51, NL-6921 AC Duiven,.

  4. 04
    Pannenkoekenhuis de Snippenhof

    6 Pizza/Steak/Shoarma Hollywood, Dorpstraat 65, NL-6931 BD Westervoort,.

  5. 05
    Juffrouw Tok

    Tolweg 9, NL-6942 HX Didam,.

From Wikivoyage: Duiven, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Duiven

Airports
Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 39 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 72 km · Düsseldorf (DUS), 89 km
Stations
Duiven railway station, 1.5 km
  • Eindhoven → Duiven
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €10–13
  • Amsterdam → Duiven
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · €11–16
  • Rotterdam → Duiven
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Duiven

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 Duiven. 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

    164 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    529 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    630 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    671 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    744 km

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

Around it

Next door to Duiven

  • Lathumvillage in Zevenaar, Netherlands3.9 km
  • Groessenvillage in Duiven, Netherlands2.1 km
  • Loovillage in Duiven, Netherlands3.8 km
  • Bahrhamlet in Zevenaar, Netherlands3.9 km
  • Helhoekhamlet in Duiven, Netherlands1.8 km