Uytland

In the far northwest of Friesland lies Uytland. A grand and open landscape of terps and dykes along the Wadden Sea that has not yet been discovered by mass tourism. With regional products everywhere, the Northern Eleven Cities Tour route and the healthy, briny air. For adventurous explorers an excellent destination to be surprised and at the same time to keep both feet on the ground. Totally in your element!
In the northwest of Friesland lies Uytland. A grand and open landscape of terps and dykes along the Wadden Sea, which has not yet been discovered by mass tourism. With regional products everywhere, the Northern Eleven Cities Tour route and the healthy, briny air. For adventurous explorers an excellent destination to be surprised and at the same time to keep both feet on the ground.

When former inhabitants took up the struggle with the sea, the sea was subdued and sandbanks and salt marsh polders emerged. Uytland has the highest density of terps in Europe, with scattered centuries-old churches and their beautiful old church paths with planks over ditches and sometimes across a farmyard. The Wadden Sea is now a World Heritage Site, because of its unique and varied wealth of plants and animals. Which know how to adapt to changing conditions. Just like the earlier terp dwellers.

In spring and summer, Uytland consists of blooming fields with often swaying grain and grassy meadows. Today it offers the finest regional products. That daily relationship between people and nature still produces an open, genuine and honest outlook on life. In Frisian we call this 'oprjocht'. In this part of the Netherlands you still know your neighbour. And at night it is still truly dark. With the annual highlights being the sporting and cultural (harvest) festivals.

Most of the 955 Frisian terps lie in Uytland, a terp landscape of enormous cultural-historical value, because they were made by human hands.

Castles, country houses, estates… In Fryslân people conveniently refer to staten and stinzen. It is well known that in medieval Fryslân hundreds of terps existed. Less well known is perhaps that on many of these, if not all, a stins appeared over the years: a stone tower with thick walls, for defending the terp dwellers in times of armed conflict.