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Papendrecht

Papendrecht is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, at the crossing of the River Beneden Merwede and the Noord River.

Papendrecht
Papendrecht · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Papendrecht is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, at the crossing of the River Beneden Merwede and the Noord River. The municipality had a population of 32,171 in 2021 and covers an area of 10.79 km2 (4.17 sq mi) of which 1.38 km2 (0.53 sq mi) is water.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Papendrecht

5 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
    Grote Kerk, Dordrecht

    The Grote Kerk of Dordrecht, officially the Church of Our Lady is a large church in the Brabantine Gothic style, and the largest church in the city. It was built between 1284 and 1470, though some parts are newer.

    2.7 km · church in Dordrecht, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dordrechts Museum

    Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of painting and other artistic objects from the last six centuries.

    2.3 km · art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    M-Scores Stadion

    The Stadion Krommedijk is a multi-purpose all-seater stadium in Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands. It is currently mostly used for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Dordrecht.

    3.5 km · football stadium in Dordrecht, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Binnenvaartmuseum (Dordrecht)

    Binnenvaartmuseum is a floating museum in Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands, on the Wantij waterway near the former shipyard De Biesbosch.

    1.8 km · maritime museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stokholm

    The Sugar Refinery Stokholm is an 18th century listed building in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. It is now an office building, but was constructed as a sugar refinery.

    2.1 km · building in Dordrecht, Netherlands · 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.

Go there

Getting to Papendrecht

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 22 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 53 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 64 km
Stations
Dordrecht railway station, 3.1 km · Zwijndrecht railway station, 3.5 km
  • Amsterdam → Papendrecht
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · €9–12
  • Eindhoven → Papendrecht
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €10–13
  • Maastricht → Papendrecht
    130 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · €20–27
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Papendrecht

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPublic transit is also available in the form of ferries across the Rhine delta, which the rivers surrounding the island are a part of.
  • Go nextNearby locations include Dordrecht, which can be easily reached by ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Zwijndrechtse Waard, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-05.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    161 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    436 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    651 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    684 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    702 km

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

Around it

Next door to Papendrecht

Papendrecht is 17 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.