Tourist attractions Stadskanaal

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.

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..

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 ..

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 ..

This reconstructed barracks accommodates archaeological finds. In the old gunpowder store , a series of slides provide information on the fort.

This is a typical example of a fortress built according to the old system of Dutch fortification, built around a pentagonal bastion, and boasting two surrounding moats. The fort can only be reached by two narrow roads which lead to the market square ..

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

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