Routen

This cycling route (which you can walk too) is published as part of the Open Monuments Weekend 2020.

The bicycle route ‘Mills and More’ will take you alongside no less than 20 mills and other places of interest in and around Kaag en Braassem.

This cycling route (which you can walk too) is published as part of the Open Monuments Weekend 2021.

Bike along the natural banks of the Kagerplassen and Braassemermeer.

Within an hour and a half, you can cycle around the Braassemermeer and will pass the villages around it.

Through the ages, both Leimuiden and Rijnsaterwoude delivered battles against the water of the Hollandse Plassen (Dutch Lakes). This bicycle route will take you along several water works, the remains of this remarkable history.

​This varied cycling route does not only lead you through the villages around Kaag & Braassem and Braassemermeer, but also through the historic inner city of Leiden.

​The polders around Kagerplassen and Braassemermeer belong to the Utrecht-Hollands peat-meadows area. Though the lots look very different here than anywhere else in the area.

You can discover the rural area between the beautiful lakes Braassemermeer and the Kagerplassen within an hour. The route will take you along the picturesque villages of Roelofarendsveen, Rijpwetering, Nieuwe Wetering and Oude Wetering. you can start the bicycle route at any point of the cycle network.

This route is accompanied by a series of 20 information signs at the remarkable historical buildings, places and objects in Hoogmade and Woubrugge.

De route will take you through a varied landscape of ancient peat polders, reclaimed land, lakes and horticultural enclaves.

A land drained by many mills.