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Toverland
Dutch indoor-outdoor theme park in Limburg offering a mix of thrill rides and family attractions in themed areas.
28 km · about 30 min drive
EuropeNetherlandsNorth Brabant
Boxmeer
North Brabant, Netherlands · Europe
About Boxmeer
Boxmeer is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Heijen, 46km from Hoge Veluwe National Park.
Boxmeer is in North Brabant, Netherlands, with about 12,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Heijen, about 4 km away.
Boxmeer (Dutch pronunciation: [bɔksˈmeːr] ) is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek.
One of the population centers of the former municipality is Overloon, where the OverloonRead more
War Museum is located.
Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, Mill en Sint Hubert, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022.
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What is there to see near Boxmeer?
Within an hour or so of Boxmeer: Toverland (28 km), DAF Museum (39 km), Posbank (43 km), Sint-Janskathedraal (44 km).
Are there any good drives near Boxmeer?
The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk and Brouwersdam.
Where is Boxmeer?
Boxmeer is in North Brabant, Netherlands, about 4 km from Heijen.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 12,407
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- North Brabant
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 51.6467, 5.9472
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Worth the detour from Boxmeer
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
DAF Museum
Eindhoven museum charting Dutch truck maker DAF, from quirky Variomatic-transmission city cars to giant race trucks, displayed near the original 1928 workshop.
39 km · about 45 min drive
photogenic
Posbank
Rolling heathland hills of Veluwezoom National Park reached by a scenic drive up the Beekhuizenseweg, in late August the moors turn purple, and misty sunrises here are the most photographed in the Netherlands.
43 km · about 50 min drive
cathedral
Sint-Janskathedraal
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
44 km · about 50 min drive
cathedral
St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch
Brabantine Gothic cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch, noted for hundreds of stone figures straddling its flying buttresses.
44 km · about 50 min drive
national park
Hoge Veluwe National Park
Cycle free white bikes across heath, dune and forest to the Kröller-Müller museum's Van Goghs in this vast wild park.
46 km · about 55 min drive
museum
Kröller-Müller Museum
Museum deep inside Hoge Veluwe National Park holding the world's second-largest Van Gogh collection plus a 25-hectare sculpture garden with Rodin, Moore and Dubuffet; free white bicycles carry you there through the park.
51 km · about 60 min drive
landmark
Thorn
The 'white village' of Limburg: an entire former abbey-principality of whitewashed brick lanes and cobbles beside the Maas, painted white in the Napoleonic era to dodge a window tax and kept that way ever since.
54 km · about 65 min drive
Driving in Netherlands
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€2.04/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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