Walking Tours in Hoorn

Hoorn: Cape Horn City

A small harbour city on the Zuiderzee sent its most ambitious sons to the ends of the earth — one named the world's southern cape after it, another built an Asian capital with iron efficiency — while at home, cheese was weighed on the central square, criminals were judged in public, and the Golden Age slowly traded itself to sleep. Ten stops through an intact 17th-century harbour town where two medieval towers still stand in the city moat, the only surviving city gate still straddles the road, and a controversial bronze statue on the central square asks whether to remember or to reckon.