Walking Tours in Gouda

Gouda: Cheese, Clay, and Light

Three crafts turned a small Dutch canal city into a name known across the world. Follow the trail of the cheese that was weighed before it could be sold, the pipes smoked from Amsterdam to Tokyo, and the cathedral windows that survived the Reformation by being too beautiful to smash. Gouda's Markt, its Gothic town hall, its 1668 weighhouse, the longest church in the Netherlands, and a dozen streets of canal-house architecture form a compact ten-stop loop through the Golden Age economy.