Netherlands Guide
The south and Zeeland
‘s-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch)
Capital of Noord-Brabant, ‘s-HERTOGENBOSCH is a lively town, particularly on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when its medieval Markt fills with traders from all over the province. If you were to draw a picture of the archetypal Dutch marketplace, it would probably look like the one here. It's broad and cobbled, home to the province's largest market and is lined with typical seventeenth-century houses. Better known as Den Bosch (pronounced "bos"), it merits exploration over a day or two. Beneath the graceful town houses of the old city flows the Binnendieze, its gloomy depths spanned by small wooden bridges. Staggered crossroads, winding streets and the twelfth-century town walls are vestiges of conflict with Holland, Gelderland and the far north and south of today's Netherlands. The town's history is written into its street and house names: "Corn Bridge", "The Gun Barrel", "Painters' Street" and more, while its most famous son is the fifteenth-century artist Hieronymous Bosch, whose statue now stands, palette in hand, in the middle of the Markt.
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