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Middelburg

Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland.

Middelburg
Middelburg · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province, Midden-Zeeland, it has a population of about 48,000.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Middelburg

10 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
    Veerse Meer

    The Veerse Meer is a lagoon in the southwest Netherlands in the province of Zeeland.

    7.8 km · lake in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Canal through Walcheren

    The Canal through Walcheren in the Netherlands crosses the east of Walcheren. It connects the Westerschelde and the Veerse Meer.

    400 m · canal for ships CEMT Va in Zeeland, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Veerse Gatdam

    The Veerse Gatdam is a man-made barrier across the former Eastern Scheldt estuary branch known as the Veerse Gat, between Walcheren and Noord-Beveland islands in Zeeland, Netherlands. The barrier was completed on 27 April 1961.

    9.8 km · dam in Veere, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Middelburg Town Hall

    Middelburg Town Hall is situated at the market of Middelburg, Zeeland. It is considered one of the finest Gothic buildings in the Netherlands.

    400 m · city hall of Middelburg, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Oostkerk

    The Oostkerk is a Protestant church in Middelburg. The church can be spotted on the Middelburg horizon by its characteristic round dome.

    400 m · church building in Middelburg, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    University College Roosevelt

    University College Roosevelt, formerly known as Roosevelt Academy, is a small, honors undergraduate liberal arts and science college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands and the sole university in Zeeland. It offers a residential setting, and is an international honors college of Utrecht University.

    400 m · liberal arts and science college in Middelburg, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St James the Great Church

    Saint James the Great Church is a large Protestant church in the city of Flushing, Netherlands. The building is on the Old Market; around are the streets called Branderijstraat and Lepelstraat.

    7 km · protestant church in Vlissingen, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Zandenburg

    Zandenburg was a famous castle just south of Veere. Nothing remains of it, except some foundations below ground level.

    6.3 km · castle near Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Veerse Gat

    The Veerse Gat or Veeregat was the sea channel between Walcheren and Noord-Beveland islands in Zeeland in the Netherlands. In 1961 as part of the Delta Plan it was blocked off by the Veerse Gatdam and made into an inland lake called Veerse Meer.

    6.6 km · lake in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Huis der Boede

    Huis der Boede is a country house near Koudekerke in the Dutch province of Zeeland, erected in 1745 for J. van Mandere, mayor of Vlissingen. For its design, he commissioned the Antwerp architect and sculptor Jan Pieter van Baurscheidt the Younger.

    4.9 km · Dutch country house · 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 Middelburg

Airports
Ostend-Bruges (OST), 61 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 76 km · Brussels (BRU), 90 km
Stations
Middelburg railway station, 500 m · Arnemuiden railway station, 3.6 km · Vlissingen railway station, 6.4 km · Vlissingen Souburg railway station, 4.2 km · Vliegveld Midden-Zeeland, 7.9 km
  • Rotterdam → Middelburg
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · €10–13
  • Amsterdam → Middelburg
    131 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · €16–22
  • Eindhoven → Middelburg
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Middelburg

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundA fast ferry for pedestrian and cyclist only is being operated by Veolia between Vlissingen and Breskens.

From Wikivoyage: Zeeland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    218 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    355 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    577 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    680 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    734 km

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