Tourist attractions Vollenhove

From the right bank of the Ijssel, you will have a beautiful view of the whole town, magnificent at twilight. In particular, you will see the onion-domed turret of the old town hall and the Nieuwe Toren standing out in the centre, the 14C Buitenkerk ..

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..

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..

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 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.

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

This museum occupies the former island church and its outbuildings. It evokes the region's medieval past through the archeological discoveries made during the construction work, the island's population in prehistoric times and its geological evolutio..

This elegant residence, its tall façade crowned with pinnacles and pierced by many windows, houses the municipal museum ( Stedelijk Museum ). Here you will find in particular the watermen's guild collection of silverware with a fine horn and silver ..

This tall square tower was built in the 17C. Topped by an octagonal belltower, it has a peal of bells cast by the Hemony brothers.

This church is a huge Gothic building dating from the middle of the 14C and dominated by a 70m tower. The interior is remarkable for its size and has five naves, a wide transept and a large ambulatory with chapels radiating from it. Notice in particu..

Built in 1957, this water tower supplies potable water to all the polder and has a carillon with 48 bells. From the top, the view stretches all the way to the Friesian coast, Urk and the Flevoland-Is electric plant.

Overlooked by the new 18C town hall, this small building dating from 1543 is crowned with galleries and flanked to the rear by an octagonal, slightly leaning tower, with an openwork onion dome. Its pinnacled gable is framed by turrets. The Magistrate..

This is the oldest of the town gates (14C). Located on the site of the old grain market of Koornmarket, near the Bovenkerk, it has kept its defensive character with a massive central keep enclosed by two squat towers.

This elegant building, flanked by towers with narrow rooves, formed part of the walls in the 15C. It was modified in the 17C in the Renaissance style.