The mill route

This route takes you along the Kagerplassen. You will also pass through the old university city of Leiden. A route full of culture and nature.

Polder mills
The Kagerplassen are an area where islands and twelve peat lakes alternate. This area is beautiful to cycle through because of the historic parcellation pattern, the virtual absence of buildings and the centuries-old polder mills. The municipality of Kaag en Braassem even has the most windmills (20) within a municipality in the Netherlands!

Leiden city gates
There are so many beautiful sights in Leiden that you regularly have to hit the brakes to view them at your leisure. It is wonderful to cycle along the canals with all those monumental buildings. You will pass, among other things, the Zijlpoort, a city gate from 1667. The Rembrandt Bridge that spans the Galgewater is a replica of a seventeenth-century bridge. On the quay is the Morspoort from 1669, the only other remaining city gate.