Biddinghuizen is a town in the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 province of Flevoland

Flevoland

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. It is a part of the municipality of Dronten

Dronten

Dronten is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. Its population is 39,787 .- History :Plans for the municipality of Dronten were made in the early half of the 1950s; real plans for the town of Dronten were revealed in 1958.The foundations for the town were laid in 1960...

, and lies about 13 km north of Harderwijk

Harderwijk

' is a municipality and a small city in the eastern Netherlands.- The history of Harderwijk :Harderwijk received city rights from Count Otto II of Guelders in 1231. A defensive wall surrounding the city was completed by the end of that century. The oldest part of the city is near where the...

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The village has got 6148 inhabitants (1 January 2011 ). The built-up area of the town was 1.4 km², and contained 1901 residences.

Biddinghuizen is home of the Lowlands Festival

A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise

A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands has about 55,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet apart from the Grolsch...

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Flevonice, a 5 km long, outdoor, refrigerated, ice skating

Ice skating

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track opened in 2007 in Biddinghuizen.