Veen
Worth seeing in and around Veen
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.
- 01Heusden Canal
The Heusden Canal is a canal on the border of the Dutch provinces North Brabant and Gelderland, roughly between Wijk en Aalburg and Heusden. The canal connects the Afgedamde Maas and Bergse Maas and has a total length of approximately 2.3 km.
3.7 km · canal in Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Veen
- Airports
- Eindhoven (EIN), 41 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 50 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 64 km
- Eindhoven → Veen45 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · €5–7
- Rotterdam → Veen46 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · €6–9
- Amsterdam → Veen68 km · quickest by road, 2h · €9–12
- 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 Veen
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 Veen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe region is easily explored by the various river ferries and 'water taxi' (Veerdienst Gorinchem).
- Get around{{listing | name | url | address 51.826315 | long | phone | fax | price 2016-07-05 | content= The company provides a local ferry services between Gorinchem, Woudrichem and the village of Sleeuwijk.
- Get aroundThey also provide water taxi services in the area.
- Go next{{go | name Loevestein castle | url | address 51.816415 | long out of the city reachable by ferry | phone | fax Oct-Apr: Sa Su 11:00–17:00; May Jun Sep: Tu-Su 11:00–17:00; Jul-Aug: daily 11:00–17:00 | price=€12.50 | lastedit=2016-06-07 | content=Medieval castle on the other shore of the Merwede.
From Wikivoyage: Gorinchem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Veen is 35 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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