Tourist attractions Orvelte

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.

The museum collections are shared among a historic house (1885), the abbey church, the Drostenhuis and the Ontvangershuis (the former home of the inspector of taxes). The exhibition is comprised mainly of local archaeological finds (boat from 6 300 B..

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..

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..

The Westerbork Camp Memorial Centre keeps alive memories of the war and the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands by means of photos, drawings, various objects and monuments. It was from this camp that Anne Frank and her family were deported t..

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

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..

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

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.

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..

Two hunebedden (prehistoric funerary monuments) are found in a wood. One of them is covered with seven slabs. The two monuments have an entrance to the south.

This charming statuette of the hero of novelist Anne de Vries (1904-1964) stands behind the garden of the Ontvangershuis. It was sculpted by Suze Berkhout. You'll find the original in the town hall.

Hunebed D 14 (a prehistoric grave marker), which can be seen shortly after the road branches to the right, is topped by six tables. You can still see some of the stones that used to encircle it.

This hunebed (prehistoric grave marker) has retained its original appearance. Located in an excavation at the top of a knoll, it consists of a square of tightly fitted stones and still has one of the flat flagstones that formed part of the roof. Two ..