A tour around Hindeloopen

Hindeloopen is a beautiful old town on the IJsselmeer. With this walk you can take a good look at those beautiful monuments. In the area you can blow out in the wide polder land.

Fishing place
From Hotel de Stadsboerderij and Eetcafé de Brabander you first walk through the protected cityscape of Hindeloopen. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, skippers conducted a lively trade with cities on the Baltic Sea. The remaining grand captain's houses show how rich the Hindeloopers were at the time. Due to trade restrictions, poverty struck and Hindeloopen became a fishing village.

Stoenckherne
Along the canal you walk into the vast polder land. You pass a farmhouse, a little later you can enjoy a breath of fresh air in the flat land. While you walk over the former Zuiderzee dike, you see the former Workum lighthouse on the left. On the right you look out over Stoenckherne, an outer dike salt marsh area that turns yellow in the spring due to the rare spider-dotter flower. In the distance you see the church tower of Hindeloopen: a beautiful picture!