Hoorn Heritage Walk: Cape Horn City
51 min
2.3 km
10 stops
About this tour
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. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
10 guided stops on this route
Hoofdtoren
Built in 1532 in Gobertanger limestone and brick, the Hoofdtoren is one of the last surviving medieval defence works of Hoorn, all the other rampart towers wer…
Roode Steen
The Waag was designed by Hendrick de Keyser in 1609. The red unicorn on the façade holds Hoorn's municipal coat of arms and was painted vermilion at the time o…
Grote Kerk
The first stone church here was consecrated in 1370, dedicated to St. Cyriacus and John the Baptist, the first of three successive churches on this site, each…
Boterhal
Count Willem V of Holland authorised the founding of a hostel here in 1347, a full decade before Hoorn received city rights. The patron saint was John the Bapt…
VOC Oostindisch Huis
The VOC charter of 1602 assigned Hoorn a formal commercial chamber, one of six in the Dutch Republic, providing one-sixteenth of the total company turnover und…
Mariatoren
The Mariatoren was built in 1508 as part of Hoorn's northern defensive wall. It is the only surviving medieval tower besides the Hoofdtoren, all the other ramp…
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