Nearest Beach
: beach
at 200
Metres
Car: recommended
Schagen is located in the north of Holland. Only a narrow range of dunes separates the broad, clean beach from the cozy and quaint place. Here are the most sunshine and least rainfall recorded in the Netherlands. The 'Seinpost', the highest sand dune in North Holland and the 'Swan-', an internationally recognized nature reserve with dunes, valleys, swamps, pine wood and two, surrounded by a rich fauna of small lakes are one of Schagen. Restaurants, a supermarket (open daily 8 to 22 h also open basks), nice restaurants and cafes and various retail stores are located in the center. Cities worth seeing in the area are, for example, with its historic old town and harbor Hoorn, Alkmaar cheese market with the well-known, with Den Helder naval museum, doll museum, harbor. Schagen is in the summer of Fries market in period costumes. Also, to Amsterdam, it is only one short hour. Inside you will find more information and maps