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Lelystad

Country:
Netherlands
State:
Flevoland
City:
Lelystad
Type of Location:
Multiple
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By Air

Lelystad business airport is a small satellite of the national airport Schiphol.Although no regular flights between Schiphol and Lelystad Airport exist.

By Train

Lelystad Centrum railway station connects the city with Almere and Amsterdam.The Hanzelijn is an extension of this line towards Dronten, Kampen and Zwolle.A second station, South Lelystad, is since 1988 in the structural work completed.It will be completed and put into use as Lelystad South will be built.Late 2007 (November / December) took place on these residential decisions (De Warande) and its station in the city.The ultimate goal of this expansion is the growth of the population to about 100,000.

By Bus

The bus service is run by Connexxion, with brand Lelybus.The city bus service has seven bus lines (A: Atoll, B: The land, C: Landstrekenwijk, D: Lelystad-Haven, Ships Quarter, F: City of Batavia and a local bus towards Golfpark / Zuigerplasbos).The bus service is on (almost) every line every fifteen minutes a connection to the train station or downtown.In addition, depart from the station regional lines to Enkhuizen, Groningen ( Q-liner ), Harderwijk, Kampen, Swifterbant and Zwolle ( Hansa liner ).

By Road

Lelystad situated on the A6.Since 1988 Lelystad is connected to the national rail network and also the end of 1988 fully completed Flevolijn Weesp - Lelystad.The town has a railway station, namely Lelystad Centrum.Directly to achieve the following cities: Amsterdam, Weesp, Almere, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.Lelystad Centrum is currently a four-track station with only two tracks in use.The station was extended as part of the construction of the Hanze Line, which is expected this line in 2012 will be taken.

By Ferry

Lelystad has its own inland port, several marinas and canals that also help to manage the water levels in the polder.One of these lakes is called Zuigerplas, which means "Sucker-lake" it is so named because it is in a hollow that was made by a suction dredger taking sand from the wrong place near it is a wood called Zuigerplasbos.

Key places to visit
New Land Heritage, Nature Park Lelystad, Agora Theatre, National Aviation Theme Park, Robert Morris Observatory

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Places to Visit

New Land Heritage

New Land Heritage is a permanent exhibition about the Zuiderzee project, the most famous land reclamation project in the world.Led by ir Cornelis Lely land was extracted from the water of the Zuiderzee.The dam gave safety, the new country countless possibilities.The exhibition polder History of the Zuiderzee project shows how the reclamation plans were created, who the supporters and opponents were, how the facility was taken in hand, who were allowed to live, and how society has evolved.The exhibition "EER The New Stone Age in Flevoland" tell it all about the prehistoric Swifterbant.How these people lived, what they grew, what they ate, which they hunted and how did they deal with death? re Standing next to the building a genuine shock concrete shed in the Northeast Polder, like a piece of industrial heritage.Young visitors to the "Water Theater" to work as a builder polder.Also on this young visitor oriented presentation entitled "Underground".In this part of the exhibition is seen in the skin of an archaeologist crawl.

Nature Park Lelystad

is an estate in Lelystad is managed by the foundation Flevolandschap.In this park, all sorts of wild animals kept in large defined areas.The total area is 400 hectares.Some of the animals is part of a breeding program so again a sufficiently large population to obtain and to be able to turn into the wild.Furthermore there is the park a prehistoric settlement and a ship wreck from the 19th century.

Agora Theatre

is a theater in the center of Lelystad and was designed by Ben van Berkel (UN Studio).In the new heart of the new Agora Theater Lelystad takes a special place.The building, designed by Ben van Berkel of UN Studio (known from the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam ) is in fact bright orange.The structure was designed by Peter Bouwtechniek.The building will be a plaza designed by Adriaan Geuze come that will be illuminated by hundreds of small spots.Previously, at the current location even if a theater with the same name.This proved to be no longer meet current requirements and the council had a choice: refurbishing or new construction.New construction was the economical choice in the context of the renewal of the city center was also good.The supervisor of this renewal, Adriaan Geuze of West8, took the famous architect Ben van Berkel inside.This had to do with a budget of 20 million euros, but he was able to use this limitation a high-profile buildings to put down.

National Aviation Theme Park

is the largest Dutch aerospace museum.Since 2003 the Aviodrome located in Lelystad, located there at the airport.Before then it was called Aviodome located at Schiphol Airport.In 1955 founded several organizations, including airline KLM and aircraft company Fokker, the "Foundation for the National Aviation Museum" with the aim of establishing a national aviation museum in the Netherlands.The collection of Aviodome continued to grow over time so that the dome at the airport became too small. In 2003 the museum moved therefore to Lelystad Airport where the name was changed to Aviodrome. The distinctive dome at Schiphol in 2004 dismantled and sold. At the current location, the museum has three buildings which through themes is paid to the Dutch aviation history: the main building, where most aircraft on display and also features a restaurant and movie theater . There is also a fully reconstructed replica of the airport terminal building in 1928 and finally, the great T2 hangar where the flying of the collection has Aviodrome his home. Visitors to the Aviodrome have limited access to the hangar. In the museum are objects and satellites of various Dutch aerospace programs to see, like the flight backup copy of the ANS satellite and a replica of the IRAS satellite.

Robert Morris Observatory

is a land art piece of art in the Dutch province of Flevoland.It was designed by American artist Robert Morris.The "Observatory" is intended to man the rhythms of day and night and the change of four seasons to experience consciously.The work is heavily inspired by ancient rock formations such as Stonehenge, which also celebrated the changing seasons.The Observatory clock, calendar and temple together.The Observatory regularly the scene of events.Thus, each year the weekend near the summer solstice where the event Sunsation drama, singing, dancing and poems break the silence.Around the Observatory stalls artists for several weeks complicated objects.During the winter solstice is a much smaller place event, organized by artists themselves Flevoland.

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