Tourist attractions Staphorst

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..

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.

The municipal museum is dedicated to the interesting history of Zwolle. It is in an attractive 16C noble house, the Drostenhuis (Bailiff's house) to which a modern wing has been added. The house has furnished rooms and attractive collections of silve..

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

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..

The head of Charles V, visible on a medallion on the gable, has provided the name for this house which was stone built in 1571 and is adorned with a pretty Renaissance pilastered façade with sculpted friezes and a scrolled gable where elongated gods ..

Built around 1409, this "Saxon gate" is the only remaining one from the surrounding wall of the town. It has a brattice and is flanked by four octagonal turrets with pointed roofs topped by a spire. The gate served as a prison for a long ti..

This Protestant church hall has three naves and dates from the 14 and 15C. It no longer has its traditional large belfry which was unable to withstand the succession of disasters. Especially worthy of mention is the sculpted pulpit from the start of ..

A new town hall has been added to the old one (15 and 19C) which had become too small. Its façades are punctuated by concrete buttresses at the top of which are a succession of pointed red roofs. The old part has a room from 1448. This former courtho..

This museum is dedicated to naive and fringe art and brings together collections of paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists who developed outside of the mainstream art world. These are creations with a great personal significance, a heightened ..

This museum lets you discover natural history, geology and the environment in an entertaining way. The museum of natural history brings together skeletons from the ice age and a varied collection of birds. The pavilion at the Ecodrome will take you o..

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..