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The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
24 km · about 30 min drive
Groningen, Netherlands · Europe
Leek is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Nieuw-Roden, 38km from Hunebedcentrum.
Leek is a town located in Groningen, Netherlands. With a population of 19,651, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Leek 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 Leek to your route.
Leek (Dutch: [leːk] ; Gronings: De Laik; West Frisian: De Like) is a village and former municipality in Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality, which bordered the Drenthe and Friesland provinces, was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019.
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approximately 20 km west of Groningen (city) on the A7 (E22) highway.
The village grew around a fortification that was constructed during the Eighty Years' War with Spain. The name 'Leek' was derived from a brook, the "Leke". The town is sometimes also called "De Leek". In Dutch, the people from Leek are called "Leeksters".
Every year around Pentecost there is a fair (Pinkstermarkt), drawing thousands of people from the area.
Near the village is a shallow lake, the Leekstermeer (also known as Zulthermeer), with recreational facilities, but the lake is in another municipality and in another province.
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Leek is located in Groningen, Netherlands, Europe. The coordinates are 53.1625 latitude, 6.3764 longitude.
Leek has a population of approximately 19,651 people, making it a town in Netherlands.
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Full driving guide for Netherlands4 notable places within an hour's drive.
racetrack
The Cathedral of Speed -- the only circuit to have hosted a MotoGP round every year since the championship began in 1949.
24 km · about 30 min drive
ancient ruins
Museum in Borger beside D27, the largest of the Netherlands' 5,000-year-old hunebed dolmens: 22-metre granite burial chambers older than Stonehenge, scattered along the Drenthe hondsrug ridge.
38 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
Car-free village known as the 'Dutch Venice' where thatched-roof farmhouses are connected by canals and wooden bridges.
51 km · about 60 min drive
photogenic
1593 star fortress village in remote Groningen restored to its 1742 form: a living five-pointed star of moats, bastions and wooden drawbridges with a cobbled marketplace at its heart, most striking from the ramparts or the air.
57 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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