Tour of Burgum and Surhuisterveen

Your route starts at't Strunerke. From here you can take a tour of the Bergumermeer. At the Regional Museum / Public Observatory Observeum you can visit the observatory, be inspired by the wonders of the universe, or see how people lived in the Middle Stone Age. On the edge of Bergum you will pass the Kruiskerk, which originally dates from the thirteenth century. Further on you will see some beautiful nineteenth-century villas in the center of the village. In neighboring Sumar, a teacher invented the Bintje potato variety in 1905 by crossing two other varieties. You will also pass the Koartwâld, a monumental flour mill from 1864, in Surhuisterveen. The Antonius Church in Surhuizum originally dates from the thirteenth century, its spire is reminiscent of the Juffertorens in Groningen.