Monument trail
Cycling through the polder landscape and the Veengebied, this route takes you past beautiful monuments. Admire, for example, the rich buildings in Jisp and Purmerend, the old warehouses in Wormer or visit the Zaanse Schans.
Although this route is called the Monument Route, you will also be surprised by the nature you encounter along the way. You cycle through the beautiful polder landscape (De Wijdewormer) and old peat meadow areas (Oostzanerveld, Ilperveld and Wormer- en Jisperveld) where geometrically tight ditches and meandering small rivers define the landscape. Every now and then on the horizon looms a characteristic ribbon village where houses used to be built side by side on the high dykes.
While cycling through Jisp and Purmerend, you will come across many beautiful monumental buildings built in a stately nineteenth-century style. But also in Wormer you will find impressive old warehouses with monument status. Because of its favourable location on the Zaan, large ships came here last century to unload and store their cargo before it was spread across the country. Today, the many square metres are reused for houses, restaurants and cultural institutions.
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Although this route is called the Monument Route, you will also be surprised by the nature you encounter along the way. You cycle through the beautiful polder landscape (De Wijdewormer) and old peat meadow areas (Oostzanerveld, Ilperveld and Wormer- en Jisperveld) where geometrically tight ditches and meandering small rivers define the landscape. Every now and then on the horizon looms a characteristic ribbon village where houses used to be built side by side on the high dykes.
While cycling through Jisp and Purmerend, you will come across many beautiful monumental buildings built in a stately nineteenth-century style. But also in Wormer you will find impressive old warehouses with monument status. Because of its favourable location on the Zaan, large ships came here last century to unload and store their cargo before it was spread across the country. Today, the many square metres are reused for houses, restaurants and cultural institutions.
Then pedal on to the Zaanse Schans and imagine yourself in an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century commuter district with wooden mills, barns, houses and museums. From 1961, the unique Zaanse structures were moved here piece by piece and the monumental structures can be admired to this day.
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