Editing Gouda, South Holland (section)

==Attractions==
[[File:Gouda Stadhuis during sunny day 2017.jpg|thumb|upright|Gouda's 15th-century town hall (formerly moated)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Weigert|first=Hans|title=Buildings of Europe: Renaissance Europe|publisher=[[The Macmillan Company]]|year=1961|editor-last=Busch|editor-first=Harald|location=New York|pages=xii, 114|editor-last2=Lohse|editor-first2=Bernd}}</ref>]]

* Old City Hall at the Markt square - built between 1448 and 1450, one of the oldest [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] city halls in the Netherlands;
* The ''Waag'' ([[weigh house]]) - built in 1667 across from the Old City Hall, this building was used for weighing goods (especially cheese) to levy taxes. It now is a national monument. It currently hosts a small cheese museum;
* [[Sint Janskerk|Grote or St. Jans Kerk]] (Great or Saint John's Church) - longest church in the Netherlands, famous for its [[stained glass]] windows which were made between 1530 and 1603, considered the most significant stained glass collection in the Netherlands.<ref>[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16544.ctl Harten-Boers, Henny van: The stained-glass windows in the Sint Janskerk at Gouda I] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526090221/http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16544.ctl |date=May 26, 2007 }}</ref> Even in the 17th century, it already was a tourist attraction;
* {{ill|Museum Gouda|nl}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museumgouda.nl/english/|title=Museum Gouda|website=www.museumgouda.nl}}</ref> - museum about the history and arts of the city;
* [[Verzetsmuseum]] - a museum about the Dutch [[resistance during World War II]], the collection currently in storage as museum building closed in November 2018;
* Museumhaven Gouda<ref>{{Cite web |title=Museum Harbour |url=https://welcometogouda.com/locaties/museum-harbour?_gl=1*1uu768c*_gcl_au*Nzk1MTE2MzQzLjE3MzgwMDk2MjIuNjE4MjUzNDY2LjE3MzgwMDk3MzQuMTczODAwOTczNA..*FPAU*Nzk1MTE2MzQzLjE3MzgwMDk2MjI.*_ga*MTE1MzcxNzMxMS4xNzM4MDA5NjE2*_ga_E0NHPGNYTP*MTczODAwOTYxNC4xLjEuMTczODAwOTczNS4wLjAuMTg4NjgzMzM5Mw..*_fplc*TUo5UHAxTTd2S0h1S05LTWk3eGtmUzVONTZsSUJpTjZkUk1xNWtZWmxYN3NMWDRnb0tLTGh4SmN3ekpPdDFjR0JnJTJGRHNYMUtBcGdhRWc1UjhETzkwdzhrJTJGMXN2M2thWjVXRjhtbUkzUEMxeDd1OExwSk5YQWlkZTlWWUhDZyUzRCUzRA.. |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Welcome to Gouda |language=en}}</ref> - small harbour with historic ships;
* Goudse Schouwburg - large theatre;
* Waaiersluis (Waaier Locks) - a historic [[Lock (water transport)|lock]] on the Hollandse IJssel just east of Gouda.