Julianatoren (

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

: ''Juliana Tower'') is an amusement park which is located in the municipality of

Apeldoorn Apeldoorn (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. It is located about 60 km east of Utrecht, 60 km west of Enschede, 25 km north of Arnhem and 35 km south of Zwolle. The ...

. The park is built around the Queen Juliana Tower, which was built in 1910, and is currently a

rijksmonument A rijksmonument (, ) is a national heritage site of the Netherlands, listed by the agency Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) acting for the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. At the end of February 2015, the Netherlands ...

(listed building). The tower was built next to

Het Loo Palace Het Loo Palace ( nl, Paleis Het Loo , meaning "The Lea") is a palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, built by the House of Orange-Nassau. History The symmetrical Dutch Baroque building was designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and was bui ...

, to celebrate the birth of Queen

Juliana of the Netherlands Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Sh ...

at the palace in 1909.Een koninklijk uitzicht

Volkskrant ''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized c ...

, August 30, 1997 Originally the tower was called Prinses Juliana Toren (''Princess Juliana Tower'') between 1910 and 1948, with an interval during the Second World War between 1940 and 1945 when it was called Juliana Toren (''Juliana Tower''). They are 450,000 visitors in 2009.Trendrapport NRIT: toerisme levert Nederland jaarlijks € 36,9 miljard op
Respons, 2010 File:Koningin Juliana Toren (6488535611).jpg, Entry to the park File:Julianatoren 20120924 112357.jpg, Super Achtbaan File:Julianatoren 20120924 131242.jpg, Brandweerspel File:Julianatoren 20120924 163635.jpg, Carousel File:Julianatoren 20120924 124916.jpg, View of the main street

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{{Amusement parks in the Netherlands Amusement parks in the Netherlands 1910 establishments in the Netherlands Towers in Gelderland Rijksmonuments in Apeldoorn Towers completed in 1910 20th-century architecture in the Netherlands