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Schettens

Schettens is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Schettens
Schettens · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Schettens is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 285 in January 2017.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Schettens

One place 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
    Protestant church of Bolsward

    St. Martin's Church is a Protestant church in Bolsward, Netherlands, and one of the medieval churches in Friesland.

    3.5 km · church building in Súdwest-Fryslân, 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.

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Getting to Schettens

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 73 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 99 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 144 km
  • Groningen → Schettens
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €9–13
  • Amsterdam → Schettens
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · €11–15
  • Rotterdam → Schettens
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €18–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Schettens

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Bolsward, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    40 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    536 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    569 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    724 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    741 km

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Around it

Next door to Schettens

  • Bolswardtown in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Witmarsumvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.4 km
  • Schraardvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands2.2 km
  • Exmorravillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands3.3 km
  • Longerhouwvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands1.5 km
  • Wonsvillage in Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands4 km