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Efteling
Enchanting Dutch fairy-tale theme park with immersive storytelling, dark rides, and world-class roller coasters.
3 km · about 5 min drive
EuropeNetherlandsNorth Brabant
Loon op Zand
North Brabant, Netherlands · Europe
About Loon op Zand
Loon op Zand works well as a base: 10 minutes from Quirijnstok, 23km from Biesbosch National Park.
Loon op Zand is in North Brabant, Netherlands, with about 23,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Quirijnstok, about 5 km away.
Loon op Zand Castle, is a castle in Loon op Zand, in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The current building looks like a manor, but is actually the keep of a medieval castle.
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What is there to see near Loon op Zand?
Within an hour or so of Loon op Zand: Efteling (3 km), Sint-Janskathedraal (17 km), St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch (17 km), Biesbosch National Park (23 km).
Are there any good drives near Loon op Zand?
The nearest famous roads are Brouwersdam, Houtribdijk and Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Where is Loon op Zand?
Loon op Zand is in North Brabant, Netherlands, about 5 km from Quirijnstok.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 23,000
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- North Brabant
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 51.6275, 5.0750
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Worth the detour from Loon op Zand
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cathedral
Sint-Janskathedraal
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
17 km · about 20 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.
17 km · about 20 min drive
national park
Biesbosch National Park
Freshwater tidal wetland of creeks and willow forest between Dordrecht and Werkendam, with visitor centres and car parks.
23 km · about 25 min 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.
36 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Kinderdijk Windmills
UNESCO World Heritage site featuring 19 iconic 18th-century windmills in a quintessential Dutch polder landscape.
42 km · about 50 min drive
bridge
Erasmusbrug
Rotterdam's swan-necked cable-stayed bridge soars over the Maas, a striking modern icon glowing over the river at night.
51 km · about 60 min drive
museum
Rietveld Schröder House
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.
51 km · about 60 min drive
Driving roads near Loon op Zand
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 51 kmErasmusbrugRotterdam's swan-necked cable-stayed bridge soars over the Maas, a striking modern icon glowing over the river at night.
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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