Giethoorn Venice of the Netherlands without cars and roads

Giethoorn Venice of the Netherlands without cars and roads 

Netherland is one of the best tourist destination in world known for its beautiful nature,peaceful settings with landscapes of Canals,Tulip Fields,windmills and cycling  routes.

Giethoorn is a village in the northeastern Netherland situated in  province in Overijssel  approximately  75 miles from Amsterdam.

Wooden houses

it is mostly car free village famously known for its boat-filled waterways, footpaths, bicycle trails and centuries-old thatched-roof houses.

interestingly as there are no roads villagers uses boat , bicycle, get around only by  foot for daily transportation.

Boats during winter

Giethoorn is often called as The Venice of Netherlands or little Venice or Venice of north.

Canals and bridges

Why Giethoorn becomes village of boats :

Historically Giethoorn is known for its peat harvesting so this created ponds and lakes in village.

peat harvesters built there homes on islands this resulted in having numbers of canals,ponds  and can have access only by boats and bridges.

Beautiful houses

Facts :

This place have 182 bridges which is connecting the houses and the main walking path.
population Giethoorn is approximately 2600.


Giethoorn have  90km of canoe trails to travel along a lake,canal.

Boating is popular tourist attraction one can rent boats here.

Bridges to navigate

Special tours are organised by tourism companies while individual boats are also available for rent for people who want to navigate around themselves.

So this is very beautiful ,peaceful village away from noisy world without cars and roads.

Tourist Boats