INFO ALMERE

ABOUT ALMERE

Almere is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of Flevoland, in the polder Zuidelijk Flevoland. The municipality welcomed its 200,000th resident in October 2016 and had 207,753 residents on 1 January 2019. Almere borders on its land side with the municipalities of Lelystad and Zeewolde. Almere is located on its waterfront on Gooimeer, IJmeer and Markermeer. The city is, except for the dikes, completely below sea level (2 to 5 meters). Almere was established in the second half of the twentieth century as the second largest city in the province of Flevoland. The first homes were delivered in 1976. In the meantime, Lelystad, the capital of Flevoland with more than 76,000 inhabitants (2016), has far surpassed the population. In 2018 it is the eighth largest municipality in the Netherlands in terms of inhabitants. In the coming period the city will be able to grow to a number of 300,000 to 350,000 inhabitants. The city of Almere is named after the water called Aelmere. In the Middle Ages this was roughly a lake or inland sea where the IJsselmeer now lies. According to some, 'Almere' is a Germanic name for 'big lake', where the word part 'mere' is an earlier form of the modern 'lake'. The Germanic 'ala' is very related to our word 'al', which means 'whole'. The photos below show the growth of Almere over the years. Photos from left to right show the city in 1961, 1975, 1990, 2000 and 2016 .

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Click here to find the tourist information via Visit Almere. In the shop (see photo below left) there is a lot for sale about Almere: including beautiful books about architecture / history / nature or maps, beautiful nature walks, architecture walks, beautiful cycling routes and other tours, souvenirs, magnets, regional products, many 036 T -shirts, flyers, travel tickets, bus cards/tickets/charging point, bicycle rental also electric, going out, theaters/pop venues: KAF, De Meester, Corrosie, De Glasbak, theater companies including Vis à vis, Suburbia, De Bonte Hond and shopping, delicious dining out, much more...
Click here for tourist information via Visit Flevoland (see logo below right) to discover other parts of the New Land, including the Noordoostpolder (Urk, Schokland, etc.) many museums (Nieuwland, Bataviawerf, etc.) tulip festival and the tulip route of the Noordoostpolder and much more...
Click here for the tourist information via I-Amsterdam to discover the capital of the Netherlands. (tickets are also for sale at Visit Almere Diagonaal 199 in the center of Almere (see photo)

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