Urk Travel Guide

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Built in 1786 this little church shows the religiousness of the Urker fishermen. Only believing in God could be meaning a safe return home on the next fishingtrip. Some fishermen even in those days already went up the Northsea and staying out of port for several days to more... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  When walking through the chaotic strees and alleyways of old Urk, one falls from one little surprise into another. Time has been kept still here as new houses are also built in the style of the fishermen's-architecture of centuries ago.The houses are small and when one... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  When shipping over the Southern Sea became more and more important, the province of Holland decided to place a firebeaken on the island of Urk. As it lay on the route from Amsterdam to the Northern outlets of the Southern Sea, it had an important role to play, besides that... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  What do you eat in a centuries old fishermen's place??? Well, fish of course. Fresh from the sea it's distributed all over the land (and even exported), but here it's fresher then it will be anywhere else! Enough restaurants will offer you the finest fish-dishes one can... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Here in this village there are still several men and women that stick to the traditional clothing of the fishermen and women of Urk. Slowly the people are however putting it away, but on the Urkerday many again put it on and walk around in style. This is always on the... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Everywhere in Urk one can see little things from ancient times, but only for the watching eye. Here and there years are carved in the stones of the houses and most visible is the plaque on the lighthouse telling why and by whome it was ordered to build. Try to see a few... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  After the closing of the Southern Sea, the IJsselmeer became a landwinning project of a scale the world never saw before. Actual plans were to comepletely drain the whole lake, but later this was overthrown by environmentalists that saw the impact such enormous project had... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Deeper back in time is the fact that Urk people were always quite religious. No wonder living on such turbulent place like an island in the middle of a sea. Many disasters followed one another and if the fish-caught was bad ... the whole island had to suffer. Therefor it was... 

 Pavlik_NL Says:  Until 1932 Urk was an island in the Southern Sea. This was an infamous strech of water entering deep into The Netherlands from the North. It was treachurous because the shallow waters were swepped up wildly by the storms, creating enormous waves and destructive floads. That...