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Rietveld Schröder House
Gerrit Rietveld's radical 1924 Utrecht house, the purest built statement of De Stijl with its sliding walls and Mondrian palette: UNESCO-listed and visitable on pre-booked tours.
6 km · about 10 min drive
Utrecht, Netherlands · Europe
Houten works well as a base: 10 minutes from Lunetten, 15km from Kasteel de Haar.
Houten is a town located in Utrecht, Netherlands. With a population of 1,335, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Houten sits in Netherlands, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Amsterdam time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Houten to your route.
Houten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦʌutə(n)] ) is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.
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Houten is located in Utrecht, Netherlands, Europe. The coordinates are 52.0283 latitude, 5.1681 longitude.
Houten has a population of approximately 1,335 people, making it a town in Netherlands.
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museum
Gerrit Rietveld's radical 1924 Utrecht house, the purest built statement of De Stijl with its sliding walls and Mondrian palette: UNESCO-listed and visitable on pre-booked tours.
6 km · about 10 min drive
cathedral
The Netherlands' tallest church tower at 112 metres, standing detached from its cathedral in central Utrecht.
8 km · about 15 min drive
castle
The Netherlands' largest castle, a turreted neo-Gothic fairytale with moats and formal gardens near Utrecht.
15 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
The best-preserved star fortification town in Europe, a double-moated six-pointed star of 17th-century ramparts enclosing a grid of gabled streets, 25 minutes from Amsterdam yet ignored by most itineraries.
30 km · about 35 min drive
castle
A moated red-brick medieval fortress at the mouth of the Vecht, one of the best-preserved castles in the Netherlands.
34 km · about 40 min drive
cathedral
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
39 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
Brabantine Gothic cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch, noted for hundreds of stone figures straddling its flying buttresses.
39 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
UNESCO World Heritage site featuring 19 iconic 18th-century windmills in a quintessential Dutch polder landscape.
40 km · about 45 min drive
April to October
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