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Netherlands. Alkmaar.
Alkmaar was founded in the 10th century and first appears in the records in 939.
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Alkmaar
It is a charming old town. Its centre has been preserved unspoiled from the...
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Alkmaar
It lies on the North Holland Canal, 8 km from the coast of the North Sea.
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Alkmaar
With its famous cheese market, it is one of the best-known tourist...
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Alkmaar
Alkmaar's cheese market is held every Friday between 10am and noon...
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Alkmaar cheese festival
The cheese market is held in front of the Weigh-House in the Waagplein.
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Alkmaar cheese festival
The cheese porters are dressed in white and wear hats in the colour of their...
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Alkmaar
The guilds of cheese porters may be differentiated by the colour of...
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Alkmaar cheese festival
The cheese porters carry the cheese on cradle-like racks.
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Alkmaar cheese festival
The square is a very busy place during the festival.
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Alkmaar cheese festival
We were lucky - the weather was excellent.
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Alkmaar cheese festival
Cheese is weighed in the weigh-house and loaded into trucks.
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Alkmaar cheese festival
The ancient scales are still in use.
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Alkmaar
One of the spectators is trying to carry the barrows.
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Alkmaar cheese festival
The square is almost completely covered with large round cheeses (Edam...
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Alkmaar
The municipal Weigh-House (Waag), at Waagplein 2, was originally the...
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Alkmaar
In the tower (1595-99) is a corillion of 1688. The religious house was...
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Alkmaar
The Weigh-house now contains the Cheese Museum.
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Alkmaar
Today the cheese market is more show than the real trading.
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Alkmaar
It remains a popular tourist spectacle.
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Alkmaar
In the centre you see people sampling different kinds of cheese and checking...
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Alkmaar
The colour of the wooden barrows suits the colour of the hats of the porters.
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