The blue heart of Groningen

Blauwestad was created on the drawing board in the late 1980s. The former agricultural area was empty and there was a lot of unemployment. The Blue City project was intended to counteract this. The 800-hectare Oldambtmeer was created on the former farmland. 350 hectares of new nature also appeared. You can admire this modern and unique example of landscape design from a bicycle. Wide views over the water alternate with young forests. Around the Oldambtmeer you drive through some beautiful old villages. In Beerta you pass, among other things, the late Gothic St. Bartholomew's Church, which was originally built in 1506. The Church of Midwolda dates from 1738.