Spaarndam
Spaarndam is a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands, on the Spaarne river and the IJ lake.
Spaarndam is a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands, on the Spaarne river and the IJ lake. The oldest part of the village, on the western side of the Spaarne, belongs to the municipality of Haarlem; the newer part on the eastern side is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer. The village is built around a dam in the river, which is also the division line of the two municipalities.
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Worth seeing in and around Spaarndam
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.
- 01Haarlem Stadion
Haarlem Stadion is a stadium in Haarlem, Netherlands, and the home stadium of the Dutch amateur football club Haarlem Kennemerland. Formerly home of the defunct professional football club HFC Haarlem, the stadium is located in the north of Haarlem.
2.4 km · stadium in Haarlem, Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Veerplas
Veerplas is an artificial lake directly east of the Dutch city of Haarlem. It was dug in 1994, mainly for recreation purposes and forms part of the Spaarnwoude recreational area.
3.4 km · lake in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03NZH Public Transport Museum
The NZH Public Transport Museum is a museum in Haarlem, Netherlands, dedicated to promoting interest and conserving the bus and tram cultural heritage of Kennemerland. It is located behind the former bus depot of the "Noord-Zuid-Hollandsche Stoomtramweg-Maatschappij", a bus and tram company.
2.6 km · museum in Netherlands · Wikipedia - 04Draaiorgelmuseum
Barrel Organ Museum Haarlem is a museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Next to the presentation of a variety of barrel organs, accessory objects and documentation material, there is a ballroom where music of the organs is often played.
3.5 km · museum in Haarlem, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Spaarndam
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 13 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 54 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 117 km
- Stations
- Haarlem Spaarnwoude railway station, 3.8 km · Santpoort Zuid railway station, 3.5 km · Santpoort Noord railway station, 3.9 km
- Rotterdam → Spaarndam56 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · €7–10
- Eindhoven → Spaarndam121 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · €14–19
- Groningen → Spaarndam155 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · €20–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Spaarndam
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 Spaarndam. 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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Spaarndam is 15 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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