IJlst
IJlst is a city in Friesland, Netherlands.
IJlst is a city in Friesland, Netherlands. It is located about 3 km southwest of Sneek. It lies within the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân and had a population of approximately 3,140 in January 2017.
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Worth seeing in and around IJlst
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.
- 01Protestant church of Bolsward
St. Martin's Church is a Protestant church in Bolsward, Netherlands, and one of the medieval churches in Friesland.
8 km · church building in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Protestant church of Boazum
The Protestant church of Boazum or Saint Martin's church is a medieval religious building in Boazum, Friesland, Netherlands. It is a late 12th century Romanesque church with inner walls of brick and outer walls of tuffstone with a 13th-century tower built out of yellow and red brick.
9.7 km · church · Wikipedia - 03Fries Scheepvaart Museum
The Fries Scheepvaart Museum is a maritime museum in the Kleinzand area of Sneek, Netherlands. Located in the province of Friesland, it contains a library, film viewing room, and focuses on local seafaring life.
3.6 km · museum · Wikipedia - 04Ylostins
The Ylostins was a Frisian castle or a so-called stins in the city of IJlst, Friesland, Netherlands
1.3 km · castle in Drylts, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to IJlst
- Airports
- Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 65 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 97 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 142 km
- Stations
- Sneek railway station, 2.9 km · IJlst railway station, 200 m · Sneek Noord railway station, 4 km
- Groningen → IJlst67 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €8–12
- Amsterdam → IJlst86 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €13–18
- Rotterdam → IJlst144 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €19–27
- 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 IJlst
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 IJlst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe old harbour town of Harlingen is 30 minutes away, and is also the ferry terminal for services to the Wadden islands of Vlieland and Terschelling.
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Next door to IJlst
- Sneektown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.4 km
- Súdwest-FryslânDutch municipality in Friesland5.2 km
- Bolswardtown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands8.1 km
- Oudegavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands5.3 km
- Goëngavillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands6.6 km
- Ysbrechtumvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.9 km