Alkmaar cheese market
Visit the Alkmaar cheese market and discover Holland's cheese city. The cheese market in Alkmaar is every Friday morning from March 31 to September 29 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition, an evening cheese market is organized again: every Tuesday evening in July and August from 19:00-21:00.
A pleasant craft market / fair is always organized around the market.
The children's cheese market is in the months of July and August and lasts from 10:30 am to 11:00 am and 11:00 am to 11:30 am. You can order tickets via the VVV webshop or by telephone on 072-5114284. You can also book at the desk and pay directly (if there is still room, there is a maximum number of participants).
Thousands of visitors from all over the world come to Alkmaar especially for the cheese market. It is therefore a special spectacle with a square full of cheese and lugging cheese carriers. In 1365 Alkmaar has weighing rights and one scale, but in 1612 there are already four. When the first real cheese market took place is shrouded in mystery. Old documents have been found that make it clear that the cheese market took place with certainty in 1622, but there is also evidence that the cheese carrier guild was founded in 1593; from this we can deduce that there must have been a cheese market back then as well.