Gouda
Gouda is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland.
Gouda is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland. Gouda has a population of 75,000 and is famous for its Gouda cheese, stroopwafels, many grachten, smoking pipes, and its 15th-century city hall. Its array of historic churches and other buildings makes it a very popular day-trip destination.
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Worth seeing in and around Gouda
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.
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- 02List of stained-glass windows in the Janskerk, Gouda
List of windows of a church building in Gouda, Netherlands
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Getting to Gouda
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 20 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 33 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 77 km
- Stations
- Gouda railway station, 800 m · Nesselande, 9.2 km · Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel railway station, 8.2 km · Boskoop railway station, 8.5 km · Gouda Goverwelle railway station, 2.2 km
- Eindhoven → Gouda83 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €12–16
- Maastricht → Gouda147 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · €22–31
- Groningen → Gouda183 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · €23–32
- 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 Gouda
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 Gouda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are no ferry or waterbus services to Gouda, but when you own a boat, there are facilities to stay in Gouda.
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Next door to Gouda
Gouda is 19 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Boskoopvillage in South Holland, the Netherlands8.2 km
- Berkenwoudefarm village in the Netherlands7.3 km