Friesland: an amazing place to spend the holidays! Friesland is a popular holiday destination. You find here beautiful nature, many water-regions, cultural and historical touristy attractions, the famous Eleven cities and a friendly population.

Friesland is “the other Holland” with its own language and culture.

A wide variety in offers
Friesland is very famous at home and abroad for the paradise of water sports that it is. But Friesland is more than water. The historical cities, the countless number of museums, the spacious scenery, the forests and the peninsulas are like a magnet to culture-lovers and peace-seekers. A nice way to discover Friesland is the “Elfstedentocht”; by bike, car or boat, by foot or of course on ice-skates.

Sportsmanlike recreation
Friesland is the place for sportsmanlike recreation. Sailing and surfing, but also trips with a boat, speedboat, ward-room yacht over the network of lakes and canals. Renting a boat is very simple. Many more people come to hike or bike. Friesland is also the country of fishermen, bouncers, fierljeppers and mud-flat hikers. Each season has loads of possibilities, in winter Friesland is skating-paradise number one.

Touristy incentives
Friesland is the country of culinary regional products, herbal liquor “Beerenburg”, artist Jopie Huisman, robust village churches, distinguishing farms, the black-and-white Holstein cow, stately mansions, lively city centres, nature-regions, duck off peat-soil and the “Princessehof” Leeuwarden with the National Ceramics Museum. There are many special events like: the cultural festval; Oerol and the ‘Skutsjesailing”.

Whereto?
A holiday, weekend or just a day out: Friesland offers a wide variety of choices. Hotels, bungalows, camping’s, rental boats are well-affordable and of good quality. Spend the night in a monumental building or on a farm? Friesland offers all of these possibilities within a wide variety to choose from. The character of the Frisian regions vary strongly: the northern Terpenlân, the historical coast of the IJsselmeer and the nature-rich lake-are, the forest-rich south eastern Friesland and the peninsulas. And through that lie the Eleven Cities, 4 National Parks and 4 National Landscapes.