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Toverland
Dutch indoor-outdoor theme park in Limburg offering a mix of thrill rides and family attractions in themed areas.
14 km · about 25 min drive
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Venray
Limburg, Netherlands · Europe
About Venray
Venray is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Oirlo, 60km from Hoge Veluwe National Park.
Venray is in Limburg, Netherlands, with about 39,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Oirlo, about 5 km away.
Venray or Venraij (pronounced [ʋɛnˈraːi] ; Limburgish: Venroj) is a municipality and a city in Limburg, the Netherlands.
The municipality of Venray consists of 14 towns over an area of 165 km2 (64 sq mi), with 43,494 inhabitants as of July 2016. About 30,000 of those inhabitants live in the city of Venray; the otherRead more
13,000 live in one of the 13 surrounding towns.
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What is there to see near Venray?
Within an hour or so of Venray: Toverland (14 km), DAF Museum (35 km), Thorn (42 km), St. John's Cathedral, 's-Hertogenbosch (49 km).
Are there any good drives near Venray?
The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk, Baraque de Fraiture and Brouwersdam.
Where is Venray?
Venray is in Limburg, Netherlands, about 5 km from Oirlo.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 39,047
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Limburg
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Coordinates
- 51.5250, 5.9750
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Worth the detour from Venray
7 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.
35 km · about 40 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.
42 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.
49 km · about 55 min drive
cathedral
Sint-Janskathedraal
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
50 km · about 55 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.
56 km · about 65 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.
60 km · about 70 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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