Tour of the fortified town of Coevorden

The route starts at Coevorden Castle. A place with history, because the first castle was already here around 1025. The current national monument is a beautiful place to start the day with breakfast or coffee. The historical centre of Coevorden is also worth seeing. You cycle a few kilometres through the polder landscape around Emlichheim. It is wonderfully quiet cycling here. Schoonebeek is one of the oldest development villages in Drenthe, it was founded in the thirteenth century. In 1943, the second largest oil field on the mainland of Western Europe was found here. In the centre of Schoonebeek there is still an old-fashioned nodding donkey as a reminder. In Westerse Bos you can see several eighteenth-century farms.