Velsen Municipality
Velsen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal. On the north side of the North Sea Canal there is a major steel plant, Tata Steel IJmuiden, formerly known as Koninklijke Hoogovens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of the Netherlands with 68,600 residents
- Description: municipality in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Velsen” and “Velzen”
- Neighbors: Haarlem
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sportpark Schoonenberg and Driehuis railway station.
Sportpark Schoonenberg
Stadium
Photo: Reinjansma, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sportpark Schoonenberg, branded as BUKO Stadion for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Eredivisie club Telstar and Eredivisie Vrouwen club Telstar. It is located in Velsen-Zuid, Netherlands.
Driehuis railway station
Railway station
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Driehuis railway station is located in Driehuis, the Netherlands. The station opened on 29 September 1957 on the Haarlem–Uitgeest railway. The station has 2 platforms.
Hoogovensmuseum
Museum
Photo: Zandcee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hoogovensmuseum is a museum located on the northern side of the North Sea Canal sluice gates at IJmuiden, in the former "buizengieterij" of Koninklijke Hoogovens, now Tata Steel IJmuiden, on the Buizenweg in Velsen-Noord.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kennemerland and IJmuiden.
Kennemerland
Kennemerland is a region in North-Holland. Many foreign travelers make a day-trip to the historic cities of Haarlem and Alkmaar, while the locals come here for it's nature, dunes and seaside resorts.
IJmuiden
Town
Photo: Ed Stevenhagen, Public domain.
IJmuiden is a port town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is the main town in the municipality of Velsen which lies mainly to the south-east. Including its large sea locks, it straddles the mouth of the North Sea Canal to Amsterdam.
Velsen
Village
Photo: Gmhogervorst, CC BY 1.0 nl.
Velsen-Zuid is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 9 km north of Haarlem. Velsen-Zuid developed around the church founded by Willibrord in the 8th century.
Velsen Municipality
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Zeeuws—“Velsen Municipality” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Velsen”
- Arabic: “فيلسن”
- Aragonese: “Velsen”
- Armenian: “Վելսեն”
- Asturian: “Velsen”
- Balinese: “Velsen”
- Basque: “Velsen”
- Belarusian: “Велзен”
- Belarusian: “Вэльзэн”
- Breton: “Velsen”
- Catalan: “Velsen”
- Cebuano: “Gemeente Velsen”
- Chinese: “Velsen”
- Chinese: “桑特波爾特”
- Chinese: “費爾森”
- Czech: “Velsen”
- Danish: “Velsen”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Velsen”
- Dutch: “Velsen”
- Esperanto: “Velsen”
- Finnish: “Velsen”
- French: “Velsen”
- German: “Santpoort”
- German: “Velsen”
- Greek: “Φέλσεν”
- Hebrew: “ולצן”
- Hungarian: “Velsen”
- Indonesian: “Velsen”
- Irish: “Velsen”
- Italian: “Velsen”
- Japanese: “フェルセン”
- Javanese: “Velsen”
- Korean: “펠선”
- Kurdish: “Velsen”
- Limburgan: “Velsen”
- Lithuanian: “Velsenas”
- Low German: “Velsen”
- Luxembourgish: “Velsen”
- Malay: “Velsen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Velsen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Velsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Velsen”
- Norwegian: “Velsen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Velsen”
- Persian: “فلسن”
- Polish: “Velsen”
- Portuguese: “Velsen”
- Romanian: “Velsen”
- Russian: “Велзен”
- Saterfriesisch: “Velsen”
- Scots: “Velsen”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Velsen”
- Silesian: “Velsen”
- Slovak: “Velsen”
- Slovenian: “Velsen”
- Spanish: “Velsen”
- Swahili: “Velsen”
- Swedish: “Velsen”
- Thai: “เวลเซน”
- Turkish: “Velsen”
- Ukrainian: “Велзен”
- Urdu: “ویلسن”
- Venetian: “Velsen”
- Vietnamese: “Velsen”
- Volapük: “Velsen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Velsen”
- Western Frisian: “Felsen”
- Zeeuws: “Velsen”
- “Velsen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Driehuis and Santpoort-Noord.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Velserbeek and Waterland.
North Holland: Must-Visit Destinations
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Curious Places to Discover
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