Cycling through the west of Friesland

This route takes you through Franeker, Harlingen, Makkum: old Frisian towns with a rich history. Between these places it is wonderful to cycle through the vast polders and along the foaming Wadden Sea. After a cup of coffee at Hotel-Restaurant Poort van Franeker you get on your bike. The town has dozens of national monuments. There is also plenty to see in Harlingen. For example, you can visit the Hannemahuis. Makkum was once located on the Zuiderzee and acquired wealth, especially in the seventeenth century. Several monumental buildings still bear witness to this. At Witmarsum you cycle through the Flietsterbosk, a varied recreational forest where several types of deciduous trees grow. You pass It Fliet, a street with a monument for Menno Simmons, who was born in Witmarsum.