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    Friesland

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    Friesland

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    Friesland in the northern Netherlands, province of lakes, Wadden Sea, and its own language: West Frisian, official alongside Dutch. The Wadden Islands Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog belong here.

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    Friesland in the northern Netherlands, province of lakes, Wadden Sea, and its own language: West Frisian, official alongside Dutch. The Wadden Islands Vlieland, Terschelling, Ameland, Schiermonnikoog belong here.Leeuwarden is the capital. Visitors enjoy watersports on lakes, swimming at the coast and islands, and mudflat hiking. In summer, old sailing cargo ships race in the Skûtsjesilen regatta.

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    Leeuwarden

    Leeuwarden

    Leeuwarden, Ljouwert in Frisian, is the administrative capital of Friesland province in the northern Netherlands and was European Capital of Culture in 2018. You come for the leaning tower Oldehove, the Fries Museum of Frisian art & history, and the Keramikmuseum Princessehof, birthplace of graphic artist M. C. Escher.

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    Leeuwarden

    Leeuwarden

    Leeuwarden, Ljouwert in Frisian, is the administrative capital of Friesland province in the northern Netherlands and was European Capital of Culture in 2018. You come for the leaning tower Oldehove, the Fries Museum of Frisian art & history, and the Keramikmuseum Princessehof, birthplace of graphic artist M. C. Escher.
    Giethoorn

    Giethoorn

    Giethoorn ist ein Wasserdorf in der Provinz Overijssel im Nordosten der Niederlande, am Rand des Moorgebiets De Wieden. Du kommst für die Fahrt mit dem Boot: Das Dorf zieht sich rund acht Kilometer an einem Dorfkanal entlang, den zahlreiche Querkanäle und Holzbrücken kreuzen.
    Groningen

    Groningen

    Groningen is the capital of the eponymous province in the north of the Netherlands, about 75 kilometres west of Leer in East Frisia. Come for a university city with a car-free centre around Grote Markt and Vismarkt, for the Martinikerk with its tower, and for the Groninger Museum, whose 1994 building was co-designed by several designers.
    Province Groningen

    Province Groningen

    The Province of Groningen is the northeasternmost of the Netherlands and borders the Wadden Sea to the north, and Ostfriesland and Emsland to the east. Its center is the university city of Groningen with its old town.The area surrounding the city, the Ommelande, is flat and expansive. Old villages are located there on *Warften*, artificially raised mounds.
    Texel

    Texel

    Texel is the largest of the West Frisian Islands and belongs to the province of Noord-Holland; from Den Helder on the mainland, the car ferry crosses in about 20 minutes. You come for the approximately 30-kilometer-long sandy beach on the west coast, the dune belt of the Duinen van Texel National Park, and bike tours between seven villages.