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Cheese carriers, wooden windmills, wild grazers in the dunes and a tsar who came to learn shipbuilding. Ten questions about North Holland beyond Amsterdam.
Cheese market tourist 0–4 · Polder cyclist 5–8 · True North Hollander 9–10
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The Alkmaar cheese market is held in front of the old weighing house from April to September. The carriers belong to a guild and run with wooden barrows piled with big round cheeses.
Photo: A. Bakker, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Amsterdam is the biggest city of the province and the capital of the whole country, but the provincial government sits in Haarlem.
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Volendam has produced so many pop stars that its music has its own nickname: the 'palingsound', or eel sound, after the village's fishing past. Urk is a real fishing village too, in Flevoland.
Photo: patano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Most of the houses and mills at the Zaanse Schans were moved there from elsewhere in the region to save them. Some mills still work, grinding mustard seeds or making paint. Kinderdijk's mills stand in South Holland.
Photo: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The crossing from Den Helder takes only about 20 minutes. From Harlingen, in Friesland, ferries sail to the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling instead.
Photo: Michielverbeek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Windmills pumped the Beemster lake dry between 1609 and 1612. The new land was laid out in a neat grid of straight roads, ditches and rows of trees, which you can still see from the air.
Photo: Arch, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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A small herd of European bison, also called wisents, was set free in a closed part of the dunes. They graze the grass and bushes and keep the landscape open. You can watch them from a special viewing platform.
Photo: Donarreiskoffer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.
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P.C. Hooft spent his summers at the Muiderslot in the 1600s and invited painters, poets and musicians to stay. Radboud Castle is real too, in Medemblik on the IJsselmeer.
Photo: Edi Weissmann from Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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In 1616 Willem Schouten, a ship's master from Hoorn, sailed around the cape and named it after his home town. Enkhuizen is a nearby harbour town with a famous open-air museum.
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Peter tried to travel in disguise, but the people of Zaandam soon recognised the tall stranger. His small wooden house there is now a museum. Alexander I ruled Russia more than a hundred years later.
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