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Self guided tour with interactive city game of Hoorn
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Self guided tour with interactive city game of Hoorn

Within 2 hours the city trail will guide you along the best spots in Hoorn, while playing fun riddles and assignments on your smartphone.

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Self-Guided Pub Trail, Scavenger Hunt and City Walk in Hoorn

Explore the city and the best pubs of Hoorn, start and pause whenever you want.

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The inside story

Home to one of the oldest cheese markets in the Netherlands, Roode Steen is a historic public square and road junction in the centre of the city of Hoorn in North Holland.

Roode Steen is also fittingly known by the name Kaasmarkt, meaning cheese market in Dutch. Hoorn’s summer cheese market takes place here every year from June to August/September.

If you look around Roode Steen, you’ll notice the Westfries Museum on the west, the 17th-century weigh house (the Waag) on the east, and a statue of Jan Pieterzoon Coen, the founder of the Dutch East India Company, in the middle of the square.

Some are surprised to find out Roode Steen has a bloody past. The name Roode Steen means red stone or fortress, calling back to the square’s archaic use as an execution site.

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Roode Steen Roode Steen, 1621 CV Hoorn, Netherlands Hoorn