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Municipality in South Holland, Netherlands
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Katwijk is a town and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands consisting of Valkenburg, Katwijk aan den Rijn (Katwijk on the Rhine), Katwijk Noord (Katwijk North), Rijnsburg and Katwijk aan Zee (Katwijk on Sea), which together house some 65,000 people.
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Museum dedicated to the life and works of seminal philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
Former airplane hangar at the Katwijk Airfield, which is converted to a theatre.
Katwijk-Leiden steam train
One of the Heritage railways of the Netherlands, the Katwijk-Leiden steam train is a narrow-gauge railway around the Valkenburgse Meer. The line is being serviced with a steam tram. Aside from the railway, there is also the National Narrow-gauge Railway Museum located around the station.
By public transit
Katwijk does not have a train station. Instead, Leiden Centraal is the nearest train station. Once here, you can transfer onto a bus heading for Katwijk.
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