"Another seat in West Frisian importance" Top 5 Page for this destination Enkhuizen Things to Do Tip by Pavlik_NL

This house too bares th coat of arms of the house of Orange AND the fromer province of West Frisia. It must have been a governemental building of some kind and is built in the Dutch renaiisance style. West Frisia was - by the way - the first area that organised defense against the raging seawaters that surrounded the area. A collective of such kind was not present anywhere else in Europe at that time (early medieval times) and the cooperation of towns and villages kept this part of Holland above the waters of the North Sea by building the first large scaled dike system in the Netherlands.