Gouda, Netherlands City Tour
We're visiting the Dutch city of Gouda in this practical guide to seeing the highlights of Gouda, in Holland, in the Netherlands. Most famous for Gouda cheese, but there are many other attractions to enjoy in this beautiful Dutch city. It has some fine examples of that special Dutch feature of the reflecting canals lined by flowers and pedestrian lanes. But here we've got several of these charming neighborhoods we'll show you in the video, and the important building where the cheese was weighed on the main town square.
The Weighing House, or Waag, has for centuries been a central point in town where the all-important cheese was weighed and deals were made.
It now contains the Tourist Information Center and the Cheese and Crafts Museum where you can taste and purchase a variety of cheeses.
The Markt, or marketplace, is the central plaza in the heart of town, home to countless pubs, restaurants and cozy sidewalk cafes.
The exquisitely proportioned Stadhuys, or City Hall, is a gem of late Gothic and early Renaissance architecture, dating from 1449-59.
The traditional cheese market takes place in the plaza every Thursday mornings 10 AM till 1230 from April through the end of August.
The street alongside the marketplace is one of the busiest in town with lots of shops, and especially the restaurants and bars and cafés – usually buzzing with people.
One block away, Groote Kerk, or Great Church, also called Saint John Church, was founded in 1485 and rebuilt after a fire in 1562. The round-arched arcades are borne by 36 pillars supporting the lofty barrel-vaulted ceiling of dark wood. It is the longest church in the Netherlands, at 123 meters.
Our walking route, starting at the train station and down to that central market square, into the church, then we'll continue along a beautiful canal down to the harbor, and then circling back around in a complete round trip walking tour of the city, and ending up back at the train station. Now we continue along the Westhaven canal.
You can easily walk along this splendid canal from the town center, only 600 meters distance - it'll take you about five minutes - down to the historic harbor where you will find clippers, barges and sailing vessels lying majestically alongside each other in the Museum Harbor, and most of these are still lived in.
In the Middle Ages, due to its central location, the town offered passage to ships en-route to Amsterdam and Flanders. After the 15th century, Gouda's role in international shipping went into decline.
Walking back towards the center from the harbor, you'll see another historic site – it's a windmill, very characteristic of the Netherlands.
We're taking a circular route through town, walking along yet another beautiful canal, observing all these bicycles going back and forth. You can actually rent a bicycle here if you'd like to peddle around in town or even extend out to some of the surrounding areas.
This route to the harbor, and then returning along a few of the less traveled back lanes, gets you off the beaten track. It's an easy stroll that doesn't take much time, and this route can bring you past another few blocks of shopping. Here you can see a benefit of being here when the cheese market is not on – you will not see very many other tourists. Then passing along a few residential blocks with their old-fashioned buildings. It's nice to get away from the historic highlights for a while and into a neighborhood that's more for locals. It's quiet and peaceful over here.
Then you will come around the bend and find what is perhaps the prettiest of the canal scenes in town along what's called the Turfmarkt.
Turf was that peat, or combustible decaying soil that was very important to the old Dutch for cooking and heating their homes, much like in Ireland and elsewhere in the north of Europe.
This route takes us back to the center at the marketplace.
There's a lovely block behind the market square. We can have a peek at it showing that very special Dutch combination of shop fronts along a pedestrian lane next to a charming little canal – circles on the map and next to it is the new market, a modern little shopping mall.
Gouda is generally visited as a daytrip from other nearby cities, which are only 20 to 30 minutes away by train. Even all the way to Amsterdam is just 52 minutes. So you can easily visit Gouda for most of the day without spending the night there. Or if you wish to overnight, there are some fine hotels such as a four-star Best Western.
The superb Dutch rail system makes it very easy to travel around in this relatively small nation, as you will see in our many other movies about the Netherlands, where we take you to all of the highlights of this wonderful country. Look for them in our collection.
More Dutch movies:
The Hague city (Den Haag), Netherlands - May 2019
Autumn Drive trough Voorburg-Leidschendam, The Netherlands
Autumn Drive trough Voorburg-Leidschendam, The Netherlands
Best Tourist Attractions in Netherlands
Best Tourist Attractions in Netherlands
Tourist Attractions in Amsterdam - Netherlands
1. Kanal-kanal Amsterdam
2. Kepulauan Frisian
3. Taman Bunga Keukenhof
4. Desa Kinderdijk
5. Kota Maastricht
6. Kanal Leiden
7. Delft City Hall
8. Taman Nasional Hoga Veluwe
9. Museum Rijksmuseum
10. Delta Project
[4K] THE HAGUE, (DEN HAAG) - City Walk
Join us on this virtual city walk through The Hague (Den Haag) in The Netherlands.
On our slow TV walking tour, we'll experience some of the city's history as well as it's more modern face. The Hague (Den Haag) is home to the UN's International Court of Justice and the ICC - International Criminal Court.
We start on the bustling Plein Square surrounded by open air cafes and trees. Passing the Statue of William of Orange, we cross to view the impressive Binnenhof, seat of the Dutch parliament.
. We view Fontein graaf Willem II, the ornate gold and black fountain before exiting onto Buitenhof and perhaps the city's most famous view across the lake behind the Binnenhof with it's many flags fluttering in the breeze.
Crossing over to Plaats, we pass busy cafes and restaurants and join Hoogstraat, one of The Hague's best shopping streets. We then follow Grote Halstraat which takes us to Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk and then Schoolstraat which leads us to Grote Markt. Surrounded by bars, cafes and restaurants, the Grote Markt is a popular place to come and sit with a beer.
Leaving the square, we take Grote Markstraat - surely the city's premier shopping area. Modern architecture mixes with street sculptures to create an eye catching street to explore. We briefly pass China Town and then join De Passage - a fine covered arcade.
And so we find ourselves at the end of our city walking tour on Gravenstraat.
Some other helpful search terms:
The Hague Netherlands
Binnenhof Netherlands
The Hague best restaurants
The Hague Top 10
Den Haag Netherlands
Den Haag Grote Markt
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL?
Consider using one of the links below to shop at Amazon. There's no cost to you in any way, and we may receive a small commission from Amazon to help pay for our equipment.
THIS VIDEO FILMED WITH:
GoPro Hero 6 Black:
(UK)
(USA)
Zhiyun Gimbal Stabilizer:
(UK)
(USA)
FULL EQUIPMENT LISTING:
Latest GoPro Hero Black:
(UK)
(USA)
Latest Zhiyun Gimbal Stabilizer:
(UK)
(USA)
SanDisk Extreme Plus 128 GB Memory Card:
(UK)
(USA)
OnePlus 3 64GB Smartphone:
(UK)
(USA)
Anker External Power bank:
(UK)
(USA)
External Microphone:
(UK)
(USA)
Please SUBSCRIBE to catch all our videos as they're released -
#thehague #netherlands #denhaag #slowtv #citywalks #videowalks #relaxation #livingwalks
The Hague travel, Netherlands 4K
The Hague travel, Netherlands 4K
Travel & Trips Videos 4K
Delft, Netherlands in 4K (UHD)
Delft is a city and a municipality in the Netherlands. It is located in the province of South Holland, to the north of Rotterdam and south of The Hague.
Delft is known for its historic town centre with canals, winding bike paths, Delft Blue pottery, the Delft University of Technology, jurist Hugo Grotius, painter Johannes Vermeer and scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek, and its association with the royal House of Orange-Nassau.
The footage was taken between June 02 - June 06, 2017.
Cameras Used:
Sony AX53 and Sony a6500 for stills.
Donations are welcome & appreciated:
BTC : 3J8mV9nxLuWMwWZdJiW6dyiXwkeWHyRE9p
ETH : 0x31f823a89279e85bcd6ee249734d07ba504915a7
Rendering Computer Specs:
Here are the parts:
Intel Core i7 4790K CPU
Corsair H75 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card
NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5 Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Donations are welcome & appreciated:
BTC : 3Hgj5g8sFZP6XkJ1gH9Kuj9ZhAjRRwkrtW
ETH : 0xeCAE8BADfb59a1121095003a3eD7B51a12608a76
Leidschendam, Holland
Houses in Leidshendam, Holland.. beautiful summer time!
Travel Diary: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Hi! Welcome to Utrecht! The heart of the Netherlands. I'm so happy to visit this place again. It brings back memories of my au pair life in the Netherlands. This place is where my dreams turned into a reality.
Follow my social media
Instagram: @maritess1986
Twitter: @maritessn1986
Tumblr: The World with Maritess
Music:
Nostalgia by Tobu
HOLLAND: Hoek van Holland, pier & beach [HD]
The North Pier stretches 4.5 kilometres into the sea (Dutch: Noorderpier or Noorderhoofd).
The pier has, from the gate at the beginning, a length of 1963 meters and the block dam at the end measures 2677 meters.
Hook of Holland, literally Corner of Holland, is a town in the Netherlands situated on the North Sea coast. Each year about 30.000 ships sail by Hoek van Holland.
The Nieuwe Waterweg (New Waterway) is a ship canal. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine.
August 15, 2011