Every design for Roden

Roden is known across the north for the Rodermarkt, a cattle and goods fair held on the fourth Tuesday of September that has grown into days of parades, fairground rides, grass-track motor races and trotting on a sand-covered road. The rest of the year it is a green village in the north of Drenthe, close to the border with Groningen province and not far south-west of the city of Groningen.

Museum Havezate Mensinge sits at the south-eastern edge of the old village centre: a manor house surrounded by moats and meadows, founded long ago as a noble estate and owned by the municipality since the eighties. Next to it lie the Mensingebos and the Sterrebos, woods and heath open to anyone who wants to walk them. Across from the Sterrebos stands the Kapteyn observatory, built for the university's astronomers to escape the city's light; its telescope has since come back to Roden. The village itself grew around a brink, and the name, first recorded as Rothen, means a settlement near a clearing in the forest.

Whether you learned to ride a bike around the Brink or walked the dog through the Sterrebos, this map is yours to keep.