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Folsgare

Folsgare is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Folsgare
Folsgare · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Folsgare is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 325 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Folsgare

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
    Fries Scheepvaart Museum

    The Fries Scheepvaart Museum is a maritime museum in the Kleinzand area of Sneek, Netherlands. Located in the province of Friesland, it contains a library, film viewing room, and focuses on local seafaring life.

    3.9 km · museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ylostins

    The Ylostins was a Frisian castle or a so-called stins in the city of IJlst, Friesland, Netherlands

    3.7 km · castle in Drylts, 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.

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Getting to Folsgare

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 66 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 99 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 144 km
Stations
Sneek railway station, 3.2 km · IJlst railway station, 2.6 km · Sneek Noord railway station, 3.8 km
  • Groningen → Folsgare
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · €8–12
  • Amsterdam → Folsgare
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €12–17
  • Rotterdam → Folsgare
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · €19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Folsgare

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.

From Wikivoyage: Bolsward, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    49 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    541 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    566 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    731 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    751 km

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

Around it

Next door to Folsgare

  • Sneektown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.7 km
  • IJlsttown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Ysbrechtumvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands1.8 km
  • Abbegeavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.1 km
  • Oosthemvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.4 km
  • Tirnsvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.8 km