Veluwe Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
forested hilly area with multiple kinds of terrain, including wetland and heathland
About Veluwe
The landscape of the Veluwe formed in the Saalian (350.000 to 130.000 years ago), when a thick ice sheet covered most of Northern Europe. This glacier pushed along the existing landmasses to form hill ridges at its edges. This makes it to where the Veluwe until 1867 (whenLimburg (Netherlands)was incorporated) was the highest part of the Netherlands, some110 metres (360ft)above median sea level. These glacial origins are still visible in the modern-day landscape, with large Scandinavian rocks being dotted throughout the sandy landscape, deposited here by the glacier. Once the climate became warmer, the Veluwe got covered with forests, though mankind deforested a lot of these lands during the Mediaeval period to facilitate an iron industry which demanded large amounts of charcoal. These turn
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