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Haarzuilens

Haarzuilens is a village in the Utrecht province of the Netherlands.

Haarzuilens
Haarzuilens · Wolfgang Moroder
The place

Haarzuilens is a village in the Utrecht province of the Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Utrecht, and lies about 12 km west of the city centre of Utrecht. It was a separate municipality until 1954, when it was joined to the municipality of Vleuten.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Haarzuilens

3 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
    Amsterdam–Rhine Canal

    The Amsterdam–Rhine Canal is a canal in the Netherlands that was built to connect the port and capital city of Amsterdam to the main shipping artery of the Rhine. The canal is 72 km in length, over 100 meters wide and 6 meters deep.

    3.5 km · canal in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castle de Haar

    De Haar Castle is located outside Utrecht, Netherlands. It is the largest castle in The Netherlands.

    700 m · castle complex in Haarzuilens, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hamtoren

    The Hamtoren is the remains of the historical Den Ham Castle in Vleuten. The tower is located north of the Utrecht–Rotterdam railway line, on an old road connecting Harmelen and Utrecht.

    1.8 km · remains of Den Ham castle in Vleuten in Utrecht · 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 Haarzuilens

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 26 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 42 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 79 km
Stations
Maarssen railway station, 3 km · Utrecht Terwijde railway station, 3.9 km · Vleuten railway station, 2.3 km
  • Rotterdam → Haarzuilens
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · €5–8
  • Eindhoven → Haarzuilens
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €9–13
  • Maastricht → Haarzuilens
    149 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €19–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Haarzuilens

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere is also a small ferry (pedestrians/cyclists €1.25/€1.75) across the river Lek to Vianen.
  • Go nextUtrecht IJsselstein Vianen is a short ferry ride away across the river (or a short bicycle, car or bus ride across the motorway bridge)

From Wikivoyage: Nieuwegein, 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

    128 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    465 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    665 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    675 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    707 km

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

Around it

Next door to Haarzuilens

Haarzuilens is 9 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.