Sneek

Sneek is a town southwest of Leeuwarden and seat of the former municipality of Sneek inside the province of Friesland. As for 2011 it's miles part of the municipality Sudwest-Fryslân. The metropolis had approximately 33,855 inhabitants in January 2017. Sneek is situated in Southwest-Friesland, close to the Sneekermeer and is well known for its canals, the Waterpoort, and watersport. Sneek is one of the Friese elf steden. The city is very essential for the southwest place of Friesland. Sneek turned into based inside the tenth century on a sandy peninsula on the crossing website of a dike with an essential waterway.

This waterway changed into dug whilst the previous Middelzee silted up. The dike can still be traced within the cutting-edge road sample and avenue names like "Hemdijk", "Oude Dijk" and "Oosterdijk". Sneek acquired numerous metropolis rights within the thirteenth century, which have become authentic in 1456. Sneek become now one of the 11 Frisian towns. This became also the beginning of a duration of blooming alternate for the metropolis that would remaining until approximately 1550. In 1492 production of a moat and wall around the metropolis started out.