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Grootschermer

Grootschermer is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland.

Grootschermer
Grootschermer · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Grootschermer is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. Since January 1, 2015 it has been a part of the municipality of Alkmaar, and lies about 12 km southeast of the city centre of Alkmaar.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grootschermer

One place 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
    Grote Kerk, De Rijp

    The Grote Kerk is a Protestant church in De Rijp, Netherlands, located near the Town Hall. The church is known for its 17th-century stained-glass windows.

    2.6 km · Protestant church in De Rijp, North Holland · 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 Grootschermer

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 31 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 75 km · Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 130 km
  • Rotterdam → Grootschermer
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €10–14
  • Groningen → Grootschermer
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · €18–25
  • Eindhoven → Grootschermer
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grootschermer

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can get to visit Alkmaar from the UK by using a ferry to Holland.
  • Get inThere are a number of ferry companies based in the North East of England whose ports in Holland are a short drive away from Alkmaar, which also offer a range of mini-cruises.
  • Get inThis section begins by crossing on the ferry (Buiksloterwegveer), behind Amsterdam Centraal Station.

From Wikivoyage: Alkmaar, 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

    77 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    474 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    637 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    671 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    731 km

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

Around it

Next door to Grootschermer

Grootschermer is 23 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.