CHEESE MARKET - KAASMARKT
Market that presents a very popular folk festival, and shows a cheese sale as it was done in the Middle Ages
A very popular folk festival, which shows a cheese sale as it was done in the Middle Ages! Real buyers come to negotiate and buy the cheese from the producers. And the tourists can also have a feast! It's a joyful weekly spectacle that starts at 10 am, when tons of gouda or édam balls are piled up on the central square. These balls are not red: this color, not very fashionable in the country, is reserved for cheeses intended for export. Potential buyers walk around the square, passing from one vendor to another. They taste, haggle and agree on a price before concluding the deal, all according to a theatrical ritual, whose moving permanence is largely explained by the presence of many tourists. Once the deal is done, it is the turn of the members of the cheese carriers' guild to enter the scene. Still dressed in the traditional white costume, dating from the seventeenth century, and a straw hat with a distinctive color ribbon, they pile the balls on stretchers to carry them to the public scale where the weighing will be done. Once the balls are loaded on trucks that replace the old barges, all this merry company meets in the café, where you are not forbidden to follow them. This is a typical and authentic event that you should not miss during a visit to the city.
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Members' reviews on CHEESE MARKET - KAASMARKT
Le marché au fromage est une tradition qui se maintient toujours, bien plus authentiques que les magasins attrapes-touristes d'Amsterdam.
Beaucoup de monde cependant, il faut donc prévoir d'y aller tôt le matin.
A voir absolument.