In Flevoland, you can walk endlessly. Enjoy exploring on your own or with a route in hand. Walk along the water, through new nature reserves, through places with centuries-old history, or past unique architecture. Flevoland has it all. So, put on your walking shoes and head out!
Flevoland’s nature was largely created by human hands. You’ll be amazed at how well it was done. Nowhere else in the world can you see so many different types of landscapes in a single day as in Flevoland. Straight fields and canals alternate with large forests—forests where you can wander endlessly without meeting a soul. Where herds of Konik horses and Heck cattle still roam freely.
Flevoland has a wealth of unique architecture that you can easily explore on foot. Almere, for instance, features many buildings and neighbourhoods with architecture designed by world-renowned architects. It’s no surprise that Almere ranks high on the list of European cities with remarkable architecture. But the old village of Nagele in the Noordoostpolder also boasts distinctive architecture. The block-shaped houses, for example, were designed by Gerrit Rietveld. And let’s not forget the Waterloopbos, where scale models of hydraulic engineering projects were tested by the Hydraulics Laboratory in the late 1950s and 1960s. Several walking routes will take you past all this extraordinary architecture.
Although Flevoland is the youngest province in the Netherlands, it already has a very ancient history. Did you know that the Romans walked here around 40 BC? And that Flevoland is the largest dry cemetery in the world? Around 300 shipwrecks have been found on the bottom of the former Zuiderzee. In Flevoland, you can walk various routes that allow you to relive its history.
