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Noordwijk
Municipality in South Holland, Netherlands

Noordwijk

Noordwijk is a town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

Plan a trip to Noordwijk→From Eindhoven

The municipality covers an area of 74.94 km2 (28.93 sq mi) of which 16.57 km2 (6.40 sq mi) is water and had a population of 44,062 in 2021.

Get in

Getting to Noordwijk

Coming from Amsterdam or Schiphol, take the A4 heading for Leiden, but turn onto the A44 after exit 4 (Nieuw-Vennep). Stay on the A44 for a while and then use exit 3 (Noordwijkerhout) to leave the A44 and join the N208. You will find yourself next to Sassenheim at this point. Keep going straight on the two roundabouts that you will come across.

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    Voorhout railway station SPR
See

Worth seeing

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    Museum Engelandvaarders

    Bosweg 15, Noordwijk aan Zee, info@museumengelandvaarders.nl.

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    Atlantikwall Museum

    Bosweg, Noordwijk aan Zee (Groot Hoogwaak 20 ), info@atlantikwall.nl.

  3. 03
    Space Expo

    Various showcases of space flight technology, also serves as an ESA visitors' center.

Do

Things to do

Go to the beach, one of the best in this part of Holland. Make sure you take time to head into one of the beach pavilions at the end of the day and grab a drink. These pavilions are every 500m and are disassembled in the winter. Explore the dunes by bike. Take a boat trip to the Kaag.

Eat

Where to eat

Noordwijk, especially Noordwijk aan Zee is focused very much towards tourists. Along the beach, you will find a pavilion roughly every 500 metres. Most of them get dismantled for the fall and winter. Binnen op Zee, Parallel Boulevard 4,. Think twice about getting a starter dish! Big meals for a good price. Vivaldi's, street by the beach. The best ice cream in town.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.