Landgraaf
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Template:For Template:Infobox settlement Landgraaf (Template:IPA; Template:Langx Template:IPA)Template:Fix is a municipality in southeastern Limburg, Netherlands, forming part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration. SnowWorld is the largest indoor ski piste in Europe.
Population centres
Topography
File:Gem-Landgraaf-OpenTopo.jpg
Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Landgraaf, June 2015
Attractions
A pop music festival called Pinkpop is held annually on the Pentecost weekend in Schaesberg, a town in Landgraaf.
Landgraaf is home to the largest indoor ski piste in Europe, called SnowWorld.<ref>Snow World Landgraaf</ref>
Notable natives
- Johan Kremers (born 1933 in Nieuwenhagen) a Queen's Commissioner of Limburg from 1977 to 1990
- Harry Kempen (1937 in Nieuwenhagen – 2000) a cultural psychologist and academic
- Joep Lange (1954 in Nieuwenhagen – 2014) a Dutch clinical researcher in HIV therapy, International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004
- Annemarie Mol (born 1958 in Schaesberg) a Dutch ethnographer, philosopher and academic
- Henk Blezer (born 1961 in Schaesberg) a Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies
- Sharon Walraven (born 1970 in Schaesberg) a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, silver medallist at the 2000 Paralympics and gold medallist at the 2008 Paralympics
- Carach Angren (formed 2003 in Landgraaf) is a symphonic black metal band
See also
Gallery
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Woonhuis Broekhuizenstraat, Landgraaf -
Im Freizeitpark - Mondo Verde -
Pastorie Nieuwenhagerheide Hoogstraat
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Im Freizeitpark - Mondo Verde
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Grensstraat 129 gevel, Landgraaf-Waubach
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References
External links
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