Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
Winschoten is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Eexta, 29km from Hunebedcentrum.
Winschoten is in Groningen, Netherlands, with about 19,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Eexta, about 4 km away.
Winschoten (Dutch: [ˈʋɪnsxoːtə(n)] ; Gronings: Winschoot) is a city with a population of 18,518 in the municipality of Oldambt in the northeast of the Netherlands. It is the largest city in the region of Oldambt in the province of Groningen which has 38,213 inhabitants.
Winschoten received its city rights in 1825. ItRead more
was a separate municipality until it was merged into Oldambt in 2010. The seat of government of Oldambt is in Winschoten.
There are three windmills and several churches in Winschoten. There is a railway station with direct connections to Groningen and Leer (Germany), although due to the reconstruction of the Friesenbrücke trains to Germany will stop at Weener until 2024. Winschoten has an important role as a shopping centre for the region of Oldambt. In the province of Groningen, it is the second-largest shopping destination and it attracts many consumers from nearby Germany.
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Within an hour or so of Winschoten: Fort Bourtange (19 km), Hunebedcentrum (29 km), TT Circuit Assen (40 km).
The nearest famous roads are Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk.
Winschoten is in Groningen, Netherlands, about 4 km from Eexta.
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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.
19 km · about 20 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.
29 km · about 35 min drive
racetrack
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
40 km · about 45 min drive
April to October
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