Bath Alkmaar Twinning Association

Alkmaar - Gallery

Alkmaar is famous for its historic buildings, cheese market and tulip fields in the surrounding area, typified by the photographs below.

The ‘Luttik Oudorp’ One of Alkmaar’s beautiful canals with in the background the ‘Waagtoren’. ©Mindert Drenth		The ‘Zuidstraat’ One of the oldest streets in the eastern part of Alkmaar. ©Mindert Drenth

The ‘Accijnstoren’ The ‘Accijnstoren’ on the ‘Bierkade’, built in 1622. ©Mindert Drenth		The ‘Huis met de Kogel’ The oldest timber dwelling in Alkmaar. A cannon ball is lodged in the gable, shot through the house by the Spaniards in 1573. ©Mindert Drenth

Alkmaar Cheese Market ©Ineke Radder		The ‘Hof van Sonoy’ Built around 1500 as the Monestry of St. Anna. ©Mindert Drenth

The ‘Molen van Piet’ Built in 1769 on Alkmaar’s fortifications. ©Mindert Drenth		The ‘Kapelkerk’ First built in the middle of the 15th century. Destroyed by a fire in 1760, afterwards rebuilt. Completely restored to its original state in 1955. ©Mindert Drenth

The gable of the “Provenhuis Johan van Nordingen’ Built in 1666, also known as the ‘Huis van Achten’. ©Mindert Drenth		Timber drawbridge along ‘St. Annastraat’ In the background the ‘Vigilantie’ warehouse built in the middle of the 17th century. ©Mindert Drenth

‘TAQA De Vest’ Alkmaar’s theatre at the ‘Canadaplein’. ©Mindert Drenth		View of a canal Canal with the ‘Kneppelbrug’ and the ‘St. Josephkerk’. ©Mindert Drenth

Gable of the ‘Moriaanshooft’ In the ‘Langestraat’, part of the City Hall. ©Mindert Drenth		Tulip cultivation between the towns of Egmond and Bergen south of Alkmaar In the distance on the left the silhouette of the ‘Grote of St. Laurenskerk’ of Alkmaar. ©Mindert Drenth

The ‘Schermer’ polder with windmills The polder was created between 1633 and 1635 and pumped dry with the help of 55 of these windmills. ©Mindert Drenth		The canal system of the ‘Schermer’ polder ©Mindert Drenth