Hengelo
Hengelo is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel.

Hengelo is a city in the eastern part of the Netherlands, in the Twente region, in the province of Overijssel. It is part of a larger urban area that also includes Enschede, Borne, Almelo and Oldenzaal.
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Worth seeing in and around Hengelo
4 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.
- 01De Grolsch Veste
De Grolsch Veste, previously known as Arke Stadion, is the stadium of football club FC Twente. It is located in Enschede, Netherlands, at the Business & Science Park, near the University of Twente.
4.4 km · football stadium in Enschede, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02University of Twente
The University of Twente ˈtʋɛntə]; abbr. UT) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands.
4.8 km · university in Enschede, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion
Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Hengelo, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for athletics meets, especially the annual Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, and also was the venue for the European Athletics Junior Championships in July 2007.
1.7 km · multi-use stadium in Hengelo, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Twickel Castle
Twickel is a protected historic country estate with 81 complex parts near Delden in the hamlet of Deldeneresch, in the municipality of Hof van Twente in the province of Overijssel in The Netherlands. The moated castle forms the center.
5.3 km · castle in Delden, Overijssel · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Museum Hengelo
Beekstraat 51,.
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Where to eat
- 01Ziesta BBQ Restaurant
Marskant 8,.
- 02Square Hengelo
Burgemeester Jansenplein 40,.
- 03Eetcafé de Buurman
Beursstraat 2,.
- 04Intenzo
Enschedesestraat 7,.
- 05Grieks Restaurant Delphi
Drienerstraat 12,.
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Getting to Hengelo
- Airports
- Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 63 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 86 km · Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 96 km
- Stations
- Hengelo railway station, 400 m · Enschede Kennispark railway station, 4.4 km · Delden railway station, 5.3 km · Hengelo Gezondheidspark railway station, 2.2 km · Borne railway station, 4.8 km
- Groningen → Hengelo107 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €14–19
- Eindhoven → Hengelo129 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €17–23
- Amsterdam → Hengelo130 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €15–21
- 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 Hengelo
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 Hengelo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you need to use a connecting bus or ferry from within the Netherlands, use 9292.
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