Landgraaf
Landgraaf 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
- Nieuwenhagen
- Schaesberg
- Ubach over Worms
Topography
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.
Notable natives
- Johan Kremers a Queen's Commissioner of Limburg from 1977 to 1990
- Harry Kempen a cultural psychologist and academic
- Joep Lange a Dutch clinical researcher in HIV therapy, International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004
- Annemarie Mol a Dutch ethnographer, philosopher and academic
- Henk Blezer a Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies
- Sharon Walraven a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, silver medallist at the 2000 Paralympics and gold medallist at the 2008 Paralympics
- Carach Angren is a symphonic black metal band