North Holland, Netherlands · Europe
Laren works well as a base: 10 minutes from Bijvanck, 14km from Muiderslot.
Laren is in North Holland, Netherlands, with about 12,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bijvanck, about 4 km away.
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Within an hour or so of Laren: Naarden-Vesting (6 km), Muiderslot (14 km), Dom Tower of Utrecht (20 km), Rietveld Schröder House (20 km).
The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk, Afsluitdijk and Brouwersdam.
Laren is in North Holland, Netherlands, about 4 km from Bijvanck.
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Full driving guide for Netherlands8 notable places within an hour's drive.
landmark
The best-preserved star fortification town in Europe, a double-moated six-pointed star of 17th-century ramparts enclosing a grid of gabled streets, 25 minutes from Amsterdam yet ignored by most itineraries.
6 km · about 10 min drive
castle
A moated red-brick medieval fortress at the mouth of the Vecht, one of the best-preserved castles in the Netherlands.
14 km · about 25 min drive
cathedral
The Netherlands' tallest church tower at 112 metres, standing detached from its cathedral in central Utrecht.
20 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Gerrit Rietveld's radical 1924 Utrecht house, the purest built statement of De Stijl with its sliding walls and Mondrian palette: UNESCO-listed and visitable on pre-booked tours.
20 km · about 25 min drive
castle
The Netherlands' largest castle, a turreted neo-Gothic fairytale with moats and formal gardens near Utrecht.
22 km · about 25 min drive
photogenic
Former Zuiderzee island village on a causeway north of Amsterdam, its green-and-black wooden houses raised on stilts and mounds against floods; walk out to the Paard van Marken lighthouse on the dike.
24 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
UNESCO-listed 17th-century canal system forming concentric half-circles through Amsterdam, lined with narrow merchant houses.
25 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
The oldest zoo in the Netherlands, founded in 1838, combining a zoo, aquarium, planetarium, and botanical garden.
25 km · about 30 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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