Heerenveen

Heerenveen is a town and municipality inside the province of Friesland, within the north of the Netherlands. The metropolis has won worldwide prominence in velocity skating, for it has the quickest lowland pace skating rink inside the global. The city become mounted in 1551 through three lords as a vicinity for the cause of digging peat which changed into used for gas, for this reason the call. Heerenveen become not one of the traditional 11 towns in Friesland as it did no longer have so-referred to as metropolis rights. However, it's miles now certainly one of the bigger municipalities of the province.

The windmill Welgelegen or Tjepkema's Molen is the handiest survivor of seventeen that have stood in Heerenveen. Heerenveen is well-known for its carrying accomplishments and world magnificence sports activities accommodations. These include the Abe Lenstra football stadium and the Thialf velocity skating arena which turned into one of the first indoor 400m ice rinks within the world, and wherein yearly held international events draw huge crowds. Thialf is likewise domestic to the town's ice hockey team, the Heerenveen Flyers.