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Extract from the Gouda Travel Guides:
A pretty little place some 25km northeast of Rotterdam,
GOUDA
is almost everything you'd expect of a Dutch country town: a ring of quiet canals encircling ancient buildings and old quays. More surprisingly, its
Markt
is the largest in Holland - a reminder of the town's prominence as a centre of the medieval cloth trade, and later of its success in the manufacture of cheeses and clay pipes. The touristy
cheese market
, held here every Thursday morning (10am-12.30pm) in June, July and August, is a shadow of its former self - and mercilessly milked by the tour operators - but out of these times the Ma...
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