Wijk aan Zee
Wijk aan Zee is a village on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk, the province of North Holland of the Netherlands.
Wijk aan Zee is a village on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk, the province of North Holland of the Netherlands. The prestigious Tata Steel Chess Tournament takes place there every year.
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Worth seeing in and around Wijk aan Zee
3 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.
- 01Hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden
The hoge vuurtoren van IJmuiden is a round, cast-iron lighthouse in IJmuiden, Netherlands, designed by Quirinus Harder. It was built in 1878 by D.A. Schretlen & Co, a company in Leiden.
3.7 km · lighthouse in the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02IJmuiden lower Lighthouse
The Lage vuurtoren van IJmuiden is a round, cast-iron lighthouse in IJmuiden, Netherlands, designed by Quirinus Harder. It was built in 1878 by D.A. Schretlen & Co, a company in Leiden and activated the following year.
3.8 km · lighthouse in IJmuiden, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 03IJmuiden sea lock
The IJmuiden sea lock serving Port of Amsterdam via the North Sea Canal is the largest lock in the world when considering dimensions. The lock, situated in IJmuiden in the municipality of Velsen, was opened on 26 January 2022 in the presence of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.
3.2 km · lock in the North Sea Canal in Velsen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wijk aan Zee
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 24 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 61 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 128 km
- Stations
- IJmuiden Heliport, 2.7 km
- Rotterdam → Wijk aan Zee64 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €8–12
- Eindhoven → Wijk aan Zee132 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · €15–21
- Groningen → Wijk aan Zee155 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €20–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wijk aan Zee
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 Wijk aan Zee. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
- Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
- Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).
From Wikivoyage: Heemskerk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2018-11.
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Next door to Wijk aan Zee
Wijk aan Zee is 24 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Velsenmunicipality in the Netherlands3.4 km
- Wijk aan Zee en Duinhuman settlement in the Netherlands1.2 km