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Wetsens

Wetsens is a village in Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

Wetsens
Wetsens · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wetsens is a village in Noardeast-Fryslân in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 55 in January 2017. and is considered to be one of the oldest villages in the north-east of Friesland. Before 2019, the village was part of the Dongeradeel municipality.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wetsens

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 Hantumhuizen

    The Protestant church of Hantumhuzen or Saint Anne's church is a religious building in Hantumhuzen, Netherlands, one of the many medieval churches in Friesland. The Romano-Gothic church was built in the first half of the 13th century out of red Brick.

    3.6 km · church building in Dongeradeel, 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 Wetsens

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 44 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 144 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 175 km
  • Groningen → Wetsens
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · €5–7
  • Amsterdam → Wetsens
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €17–24
  • Rotterdam → Wetsens
    190 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · €24–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wetsens

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 Wetsens. 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

    70 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    522 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    582 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    762 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    767 km

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