{"id":39663,"date":"2022-07-08T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T08:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/uncategorized\/welcome-in-friesland\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T08:14:22","slug":"welcome-in-friesland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/holiday-in-friesland\/welcome-in-friesland\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome in Friesland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>Friesland has the greatest concentration of tourist pathways and waterways in Europe<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Friesland (know in Frisian and officially as Frysl\u00e2n) is one of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands and has already existed for more than 2000 years. The Romans were the first tourists and were extremely impressed by what they found&#8230; as you will be too! Over the centuries, Friesland has developed into a unique area of the Netherlands. Nowhere else will you find such a wide variety of landscapes, cultural history and leisure opportunities in a single region measuring just 100 km across. These include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/welkom-in-friesland-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An extensive system of water- ways that links all the lakes and historical locations.<br \/>\n\u2022 Four sailing and fishing areas: inland waterways, the IJsselmeer, the Wadden Sea and the North Sea.<br \/>\n\u2022 The largest fleet in Europe: traditional sailing ships, (motor) yachts, open motorboats, open sailing boats, fishing boats and ships designed for cruises and sea fishing.<br \/>\n\u2022 Separate roads and paths for cyclists and motorised traffic.<br \/>\n\u2022 Perfect signposting.<br \/>\n\u2022 Islands in the North Sea with huge beaches.<br \/>\n\u2022 All manner of active and passive leisure activities on land and water, even during the winter!<br \/>\n\u2022 Exceptional indoor attractions throughout the entire region.<br \/>\n\u2022 Not only water but a great deal of green spaces such as pastures, forests (in the south) and nature reserves.<br \/>\n\u2022 Clean air brought in from the sea.<br \/>\n\u2022 Environmentally-friendly business, intensive care for the environment.<br \/>\n\u2022 A great deal of respect for the region\u2019s own language, culture and history, as well as for those of foreigners.<br \/>\n\u2022 Friendly inhabitants (\u00b1 654.000)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Packages and voyages<\/strong><br \/>\nFriesland Holland Travel Service offers unique holiday packages lasting several days, plus trips organised by a number of Friesland Holland partners together. The focus in the case of these all-inclusive full-service holidays is on offering a very wide range of services such as a breakdown assistance and luggage forwarding in the case of the Elfstedentochten (11 city cycling tours).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/friese-vlag-wereldberoemd-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friesland has the greatest concentration of tourist pathways and waterways in Europe Friesland (know in Frisian and officially as Frysl\u00e2n) is one of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands and has already existed for more than 2000 years. The Romans were the first tourists and were extremely impressed by what they found&#8230; as you will&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/holiday-in-friesland\/welcome-in-friesland\/\">Lees meer<span> Welcome in Friesland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":31,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday-in-friesland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frieslandhollandtravel.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}