Tourist attractions Giethoorn

These two megaliths lie in a beautiful heather-covered clearing. One of them is still topped with seven huge slabs and, in front of it to the south-east, is a very obvious entrance. The other, which is smaller, is slightly curved.

For 8km along the Staphorst-Rouveen road, there is a series of virtually identical yet picturesque thatched-roofed farms, their smart wooden features painted in green and blue. The buildings are of the hall-house type, with numerous doors in line alo..

The lakes that lie to the east and south of the village, vast stretches of water separated by small islands covered with rushes, are very popular with birds.

The farms, built in the style of a covered market, are remarkable for their dome-shaped thatched roofs. To reconcile the need to enlarge the farms (both the amount of land reclaimed from the water and the harvests continue to increase) with the meage..

Look out for the isolated belfry in this cemetery, thrown together with beams and typical of the south of Friesland.

This square has attractive monuments such as St-Nicolaaskerk (end of the Gothic), the Klokkentoren (old prison) and the old town hall (17C), a porticoed building built of brick and sandstone and converted into a restaurant. There is also the pretty f..