*The home of the Dutch open golf tournament KLM Open.
*It was the location of the assassination of politician Pim Fortuyn.
*The large Catholic neo-gothic St. Vitus church (P.J.H. Cuypers, 1892, belltower 96 metres).
*The city played host to many landscape artists during the 19th century, includingBarend Cornelis Koekkoek
