Friens
Friens is a village in the municipality Leeuwarden in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.
Friens is a village in the municipality Leeuwarden in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 80 in January 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around Friens
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.
- 01Prinses Margrietkanaal
The Prinses Margriet Canal is a canal in Friesland, Netherlands. It is now part of the Lemmer–Delfzijl Waterway, that forms an inland connection between Rotterdam and northern Germany.
2.9 km · canal in Friesland, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Protestant church of Grou
The Protestant church of Grou or Saint Peter's church is a religious building in Grou, Netherlands, one of the many medieval churches in Friesland. The Romanesque church was built in the first half of the 13th century out of tuffstone.
2.8 km · church building in Boarnsterhim, 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.
Getting to Friens
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 52 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 112 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 157 km
- Stations
- Grou-Jirnsum railway station, 1.9 km
- Groningen → Friens53 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · €7–10
- Amsterdam → Friens101 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · €14–19
- Rotterdam → Friens158 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · €21–30
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Friens
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 Friens. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is a ferry running from Enkhuizen in Noord Holland to Stavoren.
- Get inIn the summer the ferry runs up to three times daily, but in April and October not as frequent.
From Wikivoyage: Friesland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.
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