Limmen
Limmen is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Limmen is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and is situated about 9 km southwest of Alkmaar. Before 2002 it was a separate municipality.
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Worth seeing in and around Limmen
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.
- 01AFAS Stadion
AFAS Stadion is a stadium in Alkmaar, Netherlands. It is used for football matches and is the home stadium of AZ Alkmaar.
5.8 km · stadium in Alkmaar, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Egmond Abbey
Egmond Abbey or St. Adalbert's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation, situated in Egmond-Binnen, in the municipality of Bergen, in the Dutch province of North Holland.
4.1 km · Benedictine monastery in Bergen (North Holland) · Wikipedia - 03Marquette Castle
Marquette Castle is an 18th-century manor house in Heemskerk, Netherlands, occupying the site of the previous 13th-century Heemkskerk Castle, or Huis te Heemskerk.
5.5 km · castle in Heemskerk, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Hortus Bulborum
Hortus Bulborum is a Dutch foundation that conserves historic cultivars of spring flowering bulb- and tuber crops. The collection garden of the foundation is located at the Zuidkerkenlaan in Limmen, North Holland, Netherlands, near the historic city of Alkmaar.
600 m · Botanical garden of historical ornamental bulb plants in Limmen, North Holland, The Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Limmen
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 29 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 70 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 132 km
- Stations
- Uitgeest railway station, 5 km · Castricum railway station, 3.6 km · Heiloo railway station, 3.7 km
- Rotterdam → Limmen73 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €9–13
- Eindhoven → Limmen136 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €15–22
- Groningen → Limmen145 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · €18–25
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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 Limmen
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 Limmen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
- Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
- Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).
From Wikivoyage: Heemskerk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2018-11.
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Next door to Limmen
Limmen is 25 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.