Wijk aan Zee en Duin
Wijk aan Zee en Duin is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland.
Wijk aan Zee en Duin is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Holland. It existed from 1817 to 1936, when it was merged with Beverwijk.
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Worth seeing in and around Wijk aan Zee en Duin
2 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.
- 01IJmuiden 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.
3.8 km · lock in the North Sea Canal in Velsen, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Dorpskerk
The Dorpskerk is a Protestant church building at Kerkplein 1 in the centre of the Dutch village of Heemskerk. Its tower is 13th-15th century whilst the rest of the building dates to 1628-1629.
3.9 km · church building in Heemskerk · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wijk aan Zee en Duin
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 24 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 62 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 128 km
- Stations
- Beverwijk railway station, 3.6 km · IJmuiden Heliport, 3.6 km
- Rotterdam → Wijk aan Zee en Duin64 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · €9–12
- Eindhoven → Wijk aan Zee en Duin132 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · €15–21
- Groningen → Wijk aan Zee en Duin155 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · €20–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wijk aan Zee en Duin
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 en Duin. 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 en Duin
Wijk aan Zee en Duin is 23 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beverwijkmunicipality in the Netherlands3.1 km
- Velsenmunicipality in the Netherlands3.7 km
- Heemskerktown and municipality in North Holland, the Netherlands4 km
- Wijk aan Zeevillage in Beverwijk, Netherlands1.7 km
- Velsen-Noordvillage in Velsen, Netherlands3.6 km