Tourist attractions Emmen

This zoo contains a variety of species: birds from the tropical forests of South America, butterflies, seals, giraffes, zebras, antelopes, rhinoceros, impalas ... "The Africanium" includes a group of greenhouses, a natural history museum an..

Built on a on a mound in the middle of the forest, this remarkable hunebed (prehistoric grave marker), a burial passage with six enormous tables, is circled by dressed stones. The beauty of this arrangement attracts many painters.

Between the trees you can see a hunebed (D 43) that has been returned to its tumulus form and conceals two burial passages. The tumulus is surrounded by dressed stones. Gaps between the stones are filled with pebbles to hold the earth inside.Anothe..

While skirting the wood on leaving Klijndijk, you will come upon a long hunebed (prehistoric funeral mound), of which two covering stones remain.

These two hunebeds are the pride of Noordsleen. The D51, on the left, is a small covered alley topped by three slabs (four of them have disappeared). Further on on the right, the D50 , shaded by the huge oaktree growing in its centre, is better pres..

This hunebed (prehistoric funerary monument) hides behind a curtain of trees. It is topped by four slabs.

This is a partly reconstructed hunebed. An adornment of pebbles is placed between the upright slabs. Above, the heather covered land forms a mound and hides the large slabs which formed the ceiling of the hunebed. In the early Reformation, meetings w..

Of this former convent located in a park planted with large beech trees, there only remains a church and two wings of the cloister. You can visit the cloister, the refectory and its cellar, where sarcophaguses, discovered in the old courtyard of the ..

Part of this charming building, flanked by an corner turret is occupied by the town hall. Its pink rendered walls are inset on the left side of the façade (15C) with high, narrow windows. The cellar is occupied by a restaurant.

This visitor centre is dedicated to the hunebedden (prehistoric funerary monuments) and to prehistoric life. Fairly close to the visitors centre stands the largest of all the hunebedden, the hunebed of Borger (D 27). It is surrounded by trees and s..

On the main square you will see the three roofs of the restored 17C Arsenal facing the port basin. It contains the "Drenthe's Veste" museum . Not far from there, at no.9 in Friesestraat, there is a picturesque late Renaissance house with..

The D 19/20 hunebedden (prehistoric grave markers) are located on a wooded mound near the main road, from which you can see them. One of them is surrounded of a circle of stones.