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TT Circuit Assen
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
24 km · about 30 min drive
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Leek
Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
About Leek
Leek is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Nieuw-Roden, 38km from Hunebedcentrum.
Leek is in Groningen, Netherlands, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Nieuw-Roden, about 4 km away.
Leek (Dutch: [leːk] ; Gronings: De Laik; West Frisian: De Like) is a village and former municipality in Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality, which bordered the Drenthe and Friesland provinces, was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019.
The village of Leek isRead more
approximately 20 km west of Groningen (city) on the A7 (E22) highway.
The village grew around a fortification that was constructed during the Eighty Years' War with Spain. The name 'Leek' was derived from a brook, the "Leke". The town is sometimes also called "De Leek". In Dutch, the people from Leek are called "Leeksters".
Every year around Pentecost there is a fair (Pinkstermarkt), drawing thousands of people from the area.
Near the village is a shallow lake, the Leekstermeer (also known as Zulthermeer), with recreational facilities, but the lake is in another municipality and in another province.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Leek?
Within an hour or so of Leek: TT Circuit Assen (24 km), Hunebedcentrum (38 km), Giethoorn (51 km), Fort Bourtange (57 km).
Are there any good drives near Leek?
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk.
Where is Leek?
Leek is in Groningen, Netherlands, about 4 km from Nieuw-Roden.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 19,651
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Groningen
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 53.1625, 6.3764
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Essential numbers in Netherlands
Watch for cyclists. They generally have priority.
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Worth the detour from Leek
4 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Hunebedcentrum
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.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Giethoorn
Car-free village known as the 'Dutch Venice' where thatched-roof farmhouses are connected by canals and wooden bridges.
51 km · about 60 min drive
photogenic
Fort Bourtange
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.
57 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Leek
2 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 70 kmAfsluitdijkA 32km causeway sealing off the Zuiderzee, this dead-straight engineering marvel is one of Europe's great driving roads.
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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