# The dyke and harbour of Volendam

What to do en Volendam and Marken · Volendam and Marken

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/things-to-do/volendam-harbour · Revisado: 2026-11-12

- Duración: 1 h
- Temporada: All year
- Para quién: All ages

Walk · 1 h · The dyke with the fish shops, the harbour of wooden boats and the district of alleyways behind. Free.

Volendam was a fishing village on the old Zuiderzee, the inland sea that was closed off with a dyke in 1932 and is today Lake Markermeer. The Haven promenade, on the dyke, is the main street: low houses on one side, wooden boats on the other and a row of stalls selling herring and smoked eel. Behind the dyke, down a few steps, is the old district of the Doolhof, a maze of narrow alleys and wooden houses with tiny gardens, much quieter.
Walk the dyke from end to end, go down into the Doolhof and return to the harbour to catch the boat to Marken. In season and at midday the dyke fills up; first thing in the morning or at the end of the afternoon it is a different place.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Coordenadas: 52.4955, 5.0718

## Cerca de aquí

- [Boat from Volendam to Marken across the Markermeer](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/things-to-do/volendam-marken-boat), a 69 m
- [Hotel Spaander](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/where-to-stay/hotel-spaander), a 72 m
- [Volendams Museum](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/things-to-do/volendams-museum), a 232 m
- [Smit-Bokkum](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/where-to-eat/smit-bokkum), a 345 m
- [Smit-Bokkum eel smokehouse](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/things-to-do/eel-smokehouse), a 345 m
- [Van der Valk Hotel Volendam](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/where-to-stay/van-der-valk-hotel-volendam), a 1.4 km
- [Marker Museum, six little houses of Marken](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/things-to-do/marker-museum), a 4.7 km
- [Dyke walk to the Paard van Marken lighthouse](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken/things-to-do/paard-van-marken), a 6.4 km

Destino: [Volendam and Marken](https://www.geocalia.com/en/the-netherlands/volendam-and-marken.md)