Netherlands Guide
Noord-Holland
Enkhuizen
The lovely little town of ENKHUIZEN was once one of the country's most important seaports. From the fourteenth to the early eighteenth century, when its harbour silted up, it prospered from both the Baltic sea trade and the North Sea herring fishery. Subsequently, Enkhuizen slipped into a long-lasting economic reverie, becoming a remote and solitary backwater until, in recent years, tourism has revived its fortunes. About twenty minutes' walk from end to end, the town centre, with its ancient streets and slender canals, has preserved its medieval shape, a rough circle with a ring of bastions and moat on one side, and the old sea dyke on the other. The town also possesses no fewer than three pretty harbours and a major attraction in the extensive Zuiderzeemuseum
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