TOP Landgoed Linschoten

At 450 hectares, the Landgoed Linschoten is the largest estate in the Randstad. It includes a country house with park, watercourses, monumental farms, grasslands and woods. The park was redesigned by landscape architect Jan David Zocher in 1834. Today it is a protected nature reserve where many unusual plants can be found, such as ramson, arum, bird's milk and wild hyacinths. So reason enough to also visit the estate itself.

The Linschoten Estate is a beautiful starting point to explore the surrounding polders by foot, bike or boat. The traditional polder landscape is intersected by several watercourses: the long and short Linschoten, the Hollandsche IJssel and the Lek. Polders are interspersed with picturesque old Dutch towns of Linschoten, Montfoort and Oudewater. There are several castles in the area, including in the nearby fortified town of Woerden.