Visit Dronten
You are in the heart of the polder. Dronten is surrounded by vast green fields and straight canals. It is a place of order and space where the sky feels huge. The land here is very flat because it was once a sandy sea bed. You can drive for miles and see nothing but crops and giant wind mills. It is the center of Dutch farming. Visit the **Observatory** land art site just outside the city. It is a massive circle of earth and stone that acts like a sun clock. You can stand in the middle and watch the sun rise during the longest day of the year. It is a powerful place that connects the flat land to the stars. Many artists have left their mark on this province with giant earth works. The city center is modern and has a very large theater called **De Meerpaal**. It looks like a giant glass box and is the social hub for the whole region. You can find a local market here with fresh food straight from the surrounding farms. It is a quiet and friendly place to stop and stretch your legs. The air is fresh and the views are endless in every direction.Top sights to visit
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History of Dronten
Dronten is a place of perfect lines and endless space in the heart of the new land. When the polder was drained the government designed this area to be the model for **modern farming**. The roads are perfectly straight and the fields are all the same size to make work as efficient as possible. It was a planned paradise for farmers who moved here from all over the country to start a new life on the rich **sea clay**. The center of the town was built to be a social hub for a community that lived miles apart in the vast fields. The people here have a pioneer spirit because they were the first to live on the bottom of the sea. They built a grand glass theater called **De Meerpaal** that acts as the town square to keep everyone warm during the windy polder winters. It is a city that values order and community because life in the open land can be lonely and wild. Art in this region is as massive as the landscape itself. Giant land art installations are scattered around the city like the famous **Observatory** that tracks the sun across the flat horizon. These works of art were built to give the new land a sense of soul and history. For the road trip user it is a place of massive views and fresh air where the scale of **human engineering** is visible in every direction.Stay in the loop
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