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A fairy-tale town hall, old churches and sweet treats. Ten questions about the cosy old town between Rotterdam and Utrecht.
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Gouda lies in the east of South Holland, close to the border with the province of Utrecht. Rotterdam and Utrecht are both about half an hour away.
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Farmers from the countryside around have brought their cheese to Gouda's market for centuries. Today Gouda-style cheese is made all over the world, but the name comes from this town.
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The story goes that bakers around 1800 used leftover crumbs and sweetened them with syrup. By 1960 Gouda alone had 17 stroopwafel factories.
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The town hall was built between 1448 and 1450, right in the middle of the Markt. Instead of being built on wooden piles, it rests on rafts of heavy oak beams.
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From April until the end of August, farmers bring big wheels of cheese to the square on Thursday mornings. There they are weighed, tasted and sold with a traditional clap of the hands.
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Most of the huge windows were made by the brothers Dirk and Wouter Crabeth in the 1500s. When the church was plundered in 1572, the windows were left untouched. The church is also about 123 metres long.
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For many years the tree has come from Kongsberg, Gouda's sister town in Norway. It is 17 to 20 metres tall and travels by ship and truck before it is lit on the square.
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In the Middle Ages the Van der Goude family built a castle on the banks of the Gouwe, and both the family and the town were named after the river. Locals long called the town Ter Goude.
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Cornelis de Houtman's journey was hard and earned little money, but it showed that the Dutch could reach the spice islands. Many more voyages soon followed. Abel Tasman sailed decades later.
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The figures show Count Floris V of Holland handing Gouda its city rights in 1272. The carillon was a gift to the town in the 1960s.
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