Ruigoord
Ruigoord is a village in the Houtrak polder in North Holland, Netherlands, situated within the municipality of Amsterdam.
Ruigoord is a village in the Houtrak polder in North Holland, Netherlands, situated within the municipality of Amsterdam. Until the 1880s, it was an island in the IJ bay, which was turned into a polder. In the 1960s, the municipality planned to extend the Port of Amsterdam. From 1972 onwards squatters occupied buildings and started a free zone. After resisting eviction in 1997, the area was legalized in 2000. The village is nowadays partially closed in by the port, and lies about 8 km east of Haarlem.
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Worth seeing in and around Ruigoord
2 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.
- 01North Sea Canal
The North Sea Canal is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam. This man-made channel terminates at Amsterdam in the closed-off IJ Bay, which in turn connects to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.
2.2 km · Dutch ship canal · Wikipedia - 02Haarlemmertrekvaart
The Haarlemmertrekvaart [ˌhaːrlɛmərˈtrɛkfaːrt] is a canal between Amsterdam and Haarlem in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. It was dug in 1631, making it the oldest tow-canal in Holland.
3.1 km · tow canal built in 1631 from Amsterdam to Halfweg and from Halfweg to Haarlem, Netherlands (Halfweg was an 'overtoom' where passengers needed to crossover to another 'ferry' or trekschuit) · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ruigoord
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 11 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 55 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 115 km
- Stations
- Halfweg-Zwanenburg railway station, 2.6 km · Amsterdam Heliport, 3.8 km
- Rotterdam → Ruigoord57 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · €7–10
- Eindhoven → Ruigoord119 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · €14–19
- Groningen → Ruigoord152 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · €20–28
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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 Ruigoord
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 Ruigoord. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry from Newcastle, UK to IJmuiden, which is only about 30 minutes from Haarlem by local bus.
- Get inFrom the ferry terminal, it is a walk to Planetenweg (bus stop Zwaanstraat).
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Next door to Ruigoord
Ruigoord is 10 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Halfwegvillage in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands2.9 km
- Spaarnwoudevillage in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands3.8 km
- Zwanenburgvillage in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands3.5 km
- Vinkebrughamlet in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands3.2 km
- Houtrijk en Polanenhuman settlement in the Netherlands2.9 km