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Veenoord

Veenoord is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Emmen municipality in Drenthe.

Veenoord
Veenoord · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Veenoord is a village in the Netherlands and it is part of the Emmen municipality in Drenthe. It forms a single urban area with Nieuw-Amsterdam. Vincent van Gogh stayed in the Scholte Inn during his Drenthe period.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Veenoord

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
    Van Gogh House

    Van Gogh House is a cultural site in Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. The painter Vincent van Gogh stayed here for two months in 1883; the house is now a museum.

    100 m · museum in Drenthe in the 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 Veenoord

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 48 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 86 km · Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 133 km
Stations
Emmen Zuid railway station, 3.7 km · Nieuw Amsterdam railway station, 200 m
  • Groningen → Veenoord
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · €7–9
  • Amsterdam → Veenoord
    138 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · €18–25
  • Eindhoven → Veenoord
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €22–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Veenoord

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    140 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    529 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    605 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    747 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    807 km

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