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Christmas in Geithoorn

Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 5 km southwest of Steenwijk .
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Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located in the municipality of Steenwijkerland, about 5 km southwest of Steenwijk .
Giethoorn used to be a carfree town known in the Netherlands as ”Venice of the North” or "Venice of the Netherlands".
Giethoorn has over 180 bridges.
It became locally famous, especially after 1958, when the Dutch film maker Bert Haanstra made his famous comedy ”Fanfare” there.
In the old part of the village, there were no roads (nowadays there is a cycling path), and all transport was done by water over one of the many canals. The lakes in Giethoorn were formed by peat unearthing.

The name Geithoorn was derived from Geytenhoren. Geytenhoren is a term assigned to this city after the Peat farming diggers pulled up ancient goat horns from 1170 AD. It is believed that these goat horns are actually ones that may have drowned during that flood. After time the name was shortened and changed to Geithoorn.
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