In 1616, he sailed around the America’s most Southern cape naming it Cape Horn. It is here that an explorer Willem Corneliszoon Schouten was born. Hoorn is an old city, a harbour at the Ijselmeer. Haarlem has a very interesting center and a very good museum. Alkmaar is a capital of cheese and the cheese market is traditional tourist attraction. Each of them is full of interesting sights, events, old architecture, museums. Some of these places became partly a museum themselves, but they are still economically active and vibrant with life.īigger cities like Haarlem, Hoorn and Alkmaar are worthy a one-day visit. Old small cities and villages as Edam, Marken, Medemblik, Monnickendam, Naarden, De Rijp, Zaansche Schans, and Volendam are impressing visitor with their unchanged for centuries architecture and quiet, relaxed atmosphere. North of Amsterdam amazes with wonderful landscape, long patches of grass and water. The whole province can be visited on one-day trip from Amsterdam, but your route should be planned with the road map because of many canals, which cross the countryside. The North Holland province is surrounded by water – the North Sea from the West and the Ijsselmeer from the East. Amsterdam is the biggest town of North Holland, but Haarlem is the province capital. North Holland (in Dutch Noord-Holland) is a part of the Dutch mainland with the islands of Texel and Noorderhaaks, of the Frisian archipelago. Amsterdam » The Netherlands » Provinces » Province of North Holland, The Netherlands Province of North Holland, The Netherlands

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