Castricum

Castricum is a town and municipality in the province of in the , located along the North Sea.
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  • Type: Town with 19,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: Castricum Municipality
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hortus Bulborum and Castricum railway station.

Garden
is a Dutch foundation that conserves historic cultivars of spring flowering bulb- and tuber crops. The collection garden of the foundation is located at the Zuidkerkenlaan in , , Netherlands, near the historic city of .

Railway station
is located in Castricum, the .

Railway station
Photo: Maurits90, CC0.
is located in , the . The station was opened on 1 May 1867 at the junction of the Den Helder–Amsterdam and the Haarlem–Uitgeest railways. A new station building was opened in 2006. The station has 3 platforms. is situated 4 km southeast of Castricum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uitgeest and Heemskerk.

is a village in in the .

is a municipality and a town in the , in the province of . It is located in the region.

Village
is a town in the province of . It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and is situated about 9 km southwest of . Before 2002 it was a separate municipality.

Castricum

Latitude
52.5497° or 52° 32′ 59″ north
Longitude
4.6696° or 4° 40′ 11″ east
Population
19,700
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
9F46GMX9+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 706791176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2757990
Wiki­data ID
Q9910
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Castricum” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Castricum
  • Albanian: Castricum
  • Arabic: كاستركوم
  • Aragonese: Castricum
  • Armenian: Կաստրիկում
  • Asturian: Castricum
  • Balinese: Castricum
  • Basque: Castricum
  • Belarusian: Кастрыкюм
  • Breton: Castricum
  • Catalan: Castricum
  • Cebuano: Gemeente Castricum
  • Chinese: Castricum
  • Chinese: 卡斯特里克姆
  • Danish: Castricum
  • Dutch: Castricum (gemeente)
  • Dutch: Castricum
  • Dutch: gemeente Castricum
  • Dutch: Gemeente Castricum
  • Esperanto: Castricum
  • Faroese: Castricum
  • Finnish: Castricum
  • French: Castricum
  • German: Bakkum
  • German: Castricum
  • Hebrew: קסטריקום
  • Hungarian: Bakkum
  • Hungarian: Castricum
  • Ido: Castricum
  • Indonesian: Castricum
  • Interlingue: Castricum
  • Irish: Castricum
  • Italian: Castricum
  • Japanese: カストリクム
  • Javanese: Castricum
  • Korean: 카스트리큄
  • Kurdish: Castricum
  • Limburgan: Castricum
  • Lithuanian: Kastrikiumas
  • Low German: Castricum
  • Luxembourgish: Castricum
  • Malay: Castricum
  • Min Nan Chinese: Castricum
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Castricum
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Castricum
  • Norwegian: Castricum
  • Occitan (post 1500): Castricum
  • Persian: کاستریکوم
  • Polish: Castricum
  • Portuguese: Castricum
  • Romanian: Castricum
  • Russian: Кастрикум
  • Russian: Кастрикюм
  • Saterfriesisch: Castricum
  • Slovenian: Castricum
  • Spanish: Castricum
  • Swedish: Castricum
  • Turkish: Castricum
  • Ukrainian: Кастрікюм
  • Venetian: Castricum
  • Vietnamese: Castricum
  • Volapük: Castricum
  • Waray (Philippines): Castricum
  • Western Frisian: Castricum
  • Western Frisian: Kastrikum
  • Zeeuws: Castricum

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Castricum”. Photo: Jiří Komárek, CC BY-SA 4.0.