Schoonhoven Netherlands South Holland
Netherlands

10 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Tauck Cruises (10 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At the foot of the ramparts on the Lek, between Rotterdam and Utrecht. The whole call is on foot: you pass under the Veerpoort and find a historic centre of rare coherence.
The last survivor of the five gates that once closed the town on the river side. Passing through it feels ceremonial: the Lek behind you, a central canal lined with lime trees opens up, with lift bridges and lanes where jewellers' signs follow one another.
Because it built a national reputation on working precious metal. Rings, teapots, chased spoons: silver has shone in its windows for centuries, and several working silversmiths' studios still operate in the central streets.
The national silver museum traces the history of local silversmiths: techniques, hallmarks, masterpieces, and also the life of the workshops where apprentices spent years before touching an important commission. Demonstrations regularly show metal taking shape under the hammer.
Yes. Several studios open their doors and sell pieces made on site. It is a souvenir with meaning: a spoon or a pendant worked a hundred metres from the river, not an imported object.
Yes, by about a metre and a half out of true. The fourteenth-century Grote Kerk carries that visible tilt, which locals mention with a touch of pride, like an eccentric cousin.
About two hours for the walking circuit — the Grote Kerk and its leaning tower, the fifteenth-century town hall, the canals and flowered bridges — plus time for the silver museum. The town is read like an old book, page by page, without checking your watch.
Yes, it is a common excursion on river calls: the nineteen World Heritage windmills lie a short distance downstream on the same axis.
Take a bicycle onto the Lek dyke. A few turns of the pedals and you are alone between river and meadow, in a polder landscape typical of green Holland: gridded ditches, distant steeples, placid cows and herons on watch.
Yes, and that is precisely its wager. A tiny town faithful to a single craft for generations can mark a cruise more than many capitals. Do not look for a great monument here — look for coherence.