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Egmond aan Zee (by the sea) are most known of the three Egmonden.

More than 1000 years ago it is that the village has arisen as Fishermans village, but already since the beginning of this century it has had also been a tourist resort.

Both fishermen - and past tourist resorts is still clearly in the street picture. Prominent to the boulevard you will find the lighthouse " Jan van Speyck" which can be seen from the complete village. The broad Beach offers many things to do such as pavilion, sail - and surfing possibilities. The village offers much to do for the Tourist. Terraces, restaurants, subtropical swimmingparadise, all kinds of sports like the anual Half Marathon and a shopping area for everyone. There are more then a hundred stores in Egmond aan Zee. and where the buildings of Egmond aan Zee stop, The nature of the North Holland Dunes begin.

In the backland, and especially in the direction of Egmond aan de hoef and Egmond-Binnen, the most splendid flower fields ogle in spring.

Hortus Bulborum

At Heiloo Limmen lain finds you the hortus Bulborum. This is the only garden in the world where wide 2500 different types of  tulps, narcissuses, hyacinten, and other one ball plants thrive. Each spring (beginning April to clear mid- May) The coloured fields are shown trueout Bergen.

The hortus Bulborum in most divergent at this garden old ball plants are kept, grow which are  hardly not commercially interesting anymore. The hortus Bulborum as an aim these of keeping races in score.

The oldest tulp descends from 1595 and the oldest narcissus from 1603. The history of the Egmonden starts in the early middle ages, then earl Dirk 1 of the Netherlands around 950 a convent did not found, far from the place where Saint Adelbert two had been buried two centuries before.

The abbey

The abbey was known by the Annales Egmundenses as a centre of History. The convent was destroyed in 1573 by the troops of the lord Sonoy. In 1934, a new convent was built in the area of the oldest Dutch abbey. Here a museum has been build with cards, images and dug-up objects. These give an impression of the former abbey.

The original abbey was founded in 10th century by earl Dirk I of the Netherlands as a Nonne convent and by its zoon Dirk II transformed for monks.

Present time

1 January 2005: Bergen aan Zee, Bergen, Egmond aan Zee, Egmond aan de Hoef, Egmond-Binnen and Schoorl where merged to the new municipality place called Bergen. With that a municipality with 21 kilometres long coast line, an alternating landscape of range, dunes, sea, bunches and fields arises and a rich cultural past and present. The municipality Bergen has almost 32,000 inhabitants and fulfils an important region function: inhabitants and  neighbours of the  municipalities gladly use the recreational and cultural history the municipality has to offer.

Moreover Bergen has a important national and international function for tourists

Embedded between the North sea in the west and a hinterland with all kinds of supplies in the east, Bergen has itself insured of an enormous attraction on inhabitants, companies and Tourists. The area himself stretches from of Camperduin in the north up to Egmond-Binnen in the south and covers a surface of almost 120 square kilometres.

Bergen includes a large number of Villages with each their own identity, culture and environment. Beside similarities - such as the Beach and dunes - there also clear differences. al do tourism has become a important source of income for the total municipality, Each core gives to that in its own manner interpretation.

Egmond profile themselves as a large family bathing resort and special beauty, art and culture remains nevertheless. The identity of the different cores also remains in the new municipality Bergen guaranteed. Correctly the diversity and mixture make the area this way attractive.