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Dutch people voted the Veluwe region as the finest area of scenic beauty in the country. It is where forests, sand drifts, lichen steppes, and heathlands form a splendid natural landscape. And where you can spot the Dutch ‘Big Five’: foxes, badgers, roe deer, wild boar, and red deer, as well as Highland cattle, beavers, and hundreds of other mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects. But the Veluwe region is even more than that. It is home to the Hanseatic Towns of Harderwijk, Elburg, and Hattem, for example, which were already booming back when Amsterdam and Rotterdam were still only villages. Plus there’s Paleis Het Loo with palace gardens that rank amongst the most beautiful in Europe. The Veluwe region is also where, right in the middle of De Hoge Veluwe National Park, Helene Kröller-Müller assembled her huge art collection which includes the second-largest collection of Van Gogh’s artworks in the world. Besides that, in the Veluwe region, you can savor an impressive culinary experience, perhaps even in a Michelin-starred restaurant if you choose. The Veluwe can even mean sun and beaches: it has over 100 pools and lakes, including the lakes bordering the Veluwe National Park – an Eldorado for recreation and water sports!