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City and Municipality in Utrecht, Netherlands
Photo: Joop van Houdt, Attribution via Wikimedia Commons
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One of the most popular zoos of the Netherlands, which started out in 1919 as a chicken farm and changed into a proper zoo during the Great Depression. Ouwehands hosted many events over time, and since 2015 has hosted the largest barnacle aquarium of Europe and since 2017, the zoo has housed two giant panda's lent to the zoo by China.
Military War Cemetery Grebbeberg
Militair Ereveld Grebbeberg is a military war cemetery where 800 people that died during the Nazi-German invasion of May 1940, 799 of which being military personnel, one being civilian. The cemetery is built on the Grebbeberg, where more than half of the buried soldiers died during the Battle of the Grebbeberg.
By public transit
Rhenen is serviced by trains coming from Utrecht at {{Station|Rhenen|city=nl|spr}}, which used to connect to Kesteren on the other side of the Nederrijn river.
Rhenen its city centre can easily be explored on foot, but should you wish to visit the Grebbeberg or the zoo, then buses should be your go-to option.
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