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Experience the Golden Age in Hoorn

Everywhere in the world, the Dutch East India Company has left traces behind. In Hoorn you also enjoy strolling past the harbors and the beautiful buildings from that glorious time.

Hoorn is located directly at the water and was very prosperous during the Golden Age. The city was in the perfect location for the trade routes of the Dutch East India Company and flourished during the 17th century.

Nowadays, the wealth and influence of Hoorn live on in monumental buildings, grand architecture and museums full of historical treasures. The warehouses, ports and grand houses, really everything exudes the prosperity of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

 

 

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