Roggebotsluis - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

The Icon Museum in Recklinghausen was founded in 1956 and is the most important of its kind in Western Europe. The collection is the largest outside the Orthodox world. The collection is the largest in the western hemisphere. Over 3,500 icons, embroideries, miniatures, and wood and metal works are on display in the museum. The countries of origin are Russia , Greece , Ethiopia and the Balkans.

IJsseloog is an artificial island in the middle of the Ketelmeer that aims to store contaminated sludge from the bottom of the lake. It also has a recreation and nature development function. The island owes its name to its location in front of the mouth of the IJssel and to the shape of the sludge depot, round like an eye,so that the contact surface of the sludge depot with the environment is as small as possible. In addition, the word "oog" is an old Dutch word for island.

A beautiful musuem which was located on a medieval mound of a former island. Presenting a picture of the geology and archeology of the Noordoostpolder, the museum offers a unique view of the island’s history and the way of life of its former inhabitants. It symbolizes the heroic, age-old struggle of the people of the Netherlands against the encroachment of the waters.

Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, it had to be evacuated in 1859.

Het Zwarte Meer is a Dutch lake on the border of the provinces of Flevoland and Overijssel. was created in the 1940s by the construction of the Noordoostpolder to the west of it . The lake is 1700 hectares in size and belongs to the Randmeren Noord of the IJsselmeer. The Zwarte Meer is surrounded by four municipalities, clockwise: Noordoostpolder (province of Flevoland), Steenwijkerland , Zwartewaterland and Kampen.

Tomahawk is a Frisbee built by Italian manufacturer SBF Visa Group currently located at Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen, Flevoland, Netherlands.