Hoorn, Netherlands

Netherlands

Hoorn, Netherlands connects to 1096 places across 16 topics through 83 Bunkabop connections, with sports and art forming the strongest threads. The city hosted the 2016 European open-water swimming championship and links through science to 18th-century naturalist Martinus Houttuyn, who was born there before studying medicine in Leiden. It shares many connections with Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and its literary reach extends to novelist Simone van der Vlugt, a Hoorn native who submitted her first manuscript at age 13.