Photography -Enkhuizen - Holland

This is where I try to create a nice web portal with all kinds of information about Enkhuizen specially for (web)tourists like you. I started by making pictures of our 650 year old town and made a few other blogs to organize the pictures by location and subject. Enjoy!

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Enkhuizen - the Wilhelmina plantsoen
The Wilhelmina plantsoen was opend by and named after queen Wilhelmina in 1936. Plantsoen is Dutch for park.


The Venedie has several restaurants with terrace.


In the winter this area is used for ice skating.


The Kaasmarkt offers a few bars and discos.

vesting
To protect the city against the often violent sea and enemy invasion two walls were built in the 16th and 17th century. Called "The Sea wall" and "the Vesting wall".


The Enkhuizerzand is the beach in Enkhuizen, a nice view on the boats and the IJsselmeer.

dijk
The dijk is best described as the promenade of Enkhuizen. westerstraat


The Zuiderhavendijk is one of the first harbours in the Netherlands. Most of Amsterdam was based on this design.

About Enkhuizen

A well preserved city in The Netherlands granted its city-rights in 1355. In the 16th and 17th century the city prospered, mainly due to trading by the East and West-Indies Company. Of wich peroiod many structures remain.

Classic Dutch canals bridges and harbours. Enkhuizen is the largest Dutch port for traditional sailing recreation.



Enkhuizen - the Snouck van loosen park
The Snouckvanloosen family left us a lot of amazing structures, among which this park they had build for their workers.

Fantastic Dutch architecture
In the Breedstraat remain a lot of well renovated monuments.


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The Westerstraat is the main shopping street of Enkhuizen.

Enkhuizen - Architectural Monuments
There are quite a lot of monuments in Enkhuizen.

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