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Groot Kwartier

Groot Kwartier is a neighbourhood of Willemstad, Curaçao, a Lesser Antilles island in the Dutch Caribbean.

Groot Kwartier
Groot Kwartier · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Groot Kwartier is a neighbourhood of Willemstad, Curaçao, a Lesser Antilles island in the Dutch Caribbean. It is better known as Emmastad, a villa ward built by Royal Dutch Shell for its employees. Emmastad is officially part of Groot Kwartier.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Groot Kwartier

7 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
    Ergilio Hato Stadium

    Ergilio Hato Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Willemstad, Curaçao. It is also known as Sentro Deportivo Korsou and is the island's largest stadium, with a capacity of 15,000 spectators.

    3.4 km · stadium in Willemstad, Curacao · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Queen Juliana Bridge

    Queen Juliana Bridge is a four-lane road bridge across St. Anna Bay in Willemstad, the capital of Caribbean island country Curaçao, which is part of The Kingdom of The Netherlands.

    3.4 km · bridge in Curaçao · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, Willemstad

    The Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral also known as Pietermaai Cathedral or the Cathedral of the Holy Rosary is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church, which serves as the cathedral of the Diocese of Willemstad in Juliana Plein 5, Pietermaai, Willemstad a city on the island of Curacao and has under its jurisdiction all dependent islands of the Netherlands in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. It was built in 1870, the exterior has a golden ocher and white parts.

    3.9 km · cathedral in Willemstad, Curaçao · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kura Hulanda Museum

    The Kurá Hulanda Museum is an anthropological museum located in the Kura Hulanda Village district of Willemstad, Curaçao. The museum teaches about the Atlantic slave trade, and African history in the Caribbean, and was opened in April 1999 by Jacob Gelt Dekker.

    3.9 km · museum in Willemstad, Curaçao · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Marinekazerne Suffisant

    Suffisant Naval Barracks is a Dutch armed forces base located on Curaçao. Until 2009, it was used by the infantry company 31 INFCIE of the Netherlands Marine Corps.

    1.6 km · building in Kingdom of the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Landhuis Bloemhof

    Landhuis Bloemhof is a plantation house, art gallery and museum in Willemstad, Curaçao. The house was built in 1735 as Landhuis Nooitgedacht.

    2.3 km · art gallery and museum in Curaçao · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stadion Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca

    The Stadion Rignaal 'Jean' Francisca is an association football stadium in Willemstad, Curaçao.

    3.8 km · curaçaoan association football stadium · Wikipedia

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Getting to Groot Kwartier

Airports
Hato (CUR), 8 km · Flamingo (BON), 70 km · Queen Beatrix (AUA), 126 km
  • Kralendijk → Groot Kwartier
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Oranjestad → Groot Kwartier
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Valencia → Groot Kwartier
    241 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · $190–280
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Groot Kwartier

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 Groot Kwartier. 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
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    764 km
  2. 02
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    837 km
  3. 03
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    863 km
  4. 04
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    876 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,001 km

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Around it

Next door to Groot Kwartier

  • Willemstadcapital city of Curaçao3.9 km
  • Otrobandaneighborhood in Willemstad, Curaçao4 km
  • Brievengathuman settlement in Curaçao2.1 km
  • Pietermaaineighborhood of Willemstad, Curaçao4 km
  • Scharlooneighbourhood in Willemstad, Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands3.6 km