Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
Delfzijl sits on the route: 10 minutes from Appingedam, 45km from Hunebedcentrum.
Delfzijl is in Groningen, Netherlands, with about 29,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Appingedam, about 4 km away.
Delfzijl (Dutch: [dɛl(ə)fˈsɛil] ; Gronings: Delfziel [dɛlfˈsil]) is a city and former municipality (which now belongs to the municipality of Eemsdelta) with a population of 25,651 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands. Delfzijl was a sluice between the Delf and the Ems, which becameRead more
fortified settlement in the 16th century. The fortifications were removed in the late 19th century. Delfzijl is the fifth largest seaport in the Netherlands, and the largest port in the North East of the country.
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Within an hour or so of Delfzijl: Fort Bourtange (40 km), Hunebedcentrum (45 km), TT Circuit Assen (49 km).
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk.
Delfzijl is in Groningen, Netherlands, about 4 km from Appingedam.
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1593 star fortress village in remote Groningen restored to its 1742 form: a living five-pointed star of moats, bastions and wooden drawbridges with a cobbled marketplace at its heart, most striking from the ramparts or the air.
40 km · about 45 min drive
ancient ruins
Museum in Borger beside D27, the largest of the Netherlands' 5,000-year-old hunebed dolmens: 22-metre granite burial chambers older than Stonehenge, scattered along the Drenthe hondsrug ridge.
45 km · about 50 min drive
racetrack
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
49 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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