Gieten
Gieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe.
Gieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 14 km east of Assen.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
There are 12 dolmen sites (megalithic tombs) in the municipality of Aa en Hunze.
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Things to do
Two villages in Aa en Hunze are starting point of a stage of the Pieterpad, the most famous long distance walking route of the Netherlands. The route's fourth stage ends in Rolde. The fifth stage runs almost entirely within Aa en Hunze, from Rolde to Schoonloo, and the sixth stage starts in Schoonloo.
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Where to eat
- 01Restaurant 't Moatie
Kerkstraat 2C, Gasselte,.
- 02De Liefde van de Drentsche Aa
Ruiterweg 2, Schipborg,.
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Getting to Gieten
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 18 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 115 km · Bremen (BRE), 136 km
- Amsterdam → Gieten144 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · €20–27
- Rotterdam → Gieten196 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · €24–33
- Eindhoven → Gieten195 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · €24–33
- 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 Gieten
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 Gieten. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIn addition, there is the so-called 'small-scale public transportation network', connecting several of the villages in the region with minibuses and also including minibus route 510 which serves as a city bus in Veendam and Wildervank (1x/hour during daytime Mondays-Saturdays).
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