Landsmeer Just Turned 700 — What That Meant for This Village on Amsterdam's Edge
A 70-day programme, seven themed chapters, and a farming village most of the country had never heard of.
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Landsmeer turned 700 on 23 June 2026 — and spent the run-up to it in the middle of a 70-day festival. The polder village just north of Amsterdam, made up of Landsmeer, Den Ilp and Purmerland, marked its anniversary with a programme running from 14 April through the official date, built around seven themed chapters with names like "Long live the King, long live Landsmeer," "Looking Back" and "Looking Forward."
The celebration closed with a multi-day festival at de Breek in the third week of June — music, food and activities, free during the day and €7 in the evening — organised by a working group that brought together the municipality, Stichting Evenementen Landsmeer, the Amicitia music society and the local Archaeological Society, coordinated by Sietse Bakker.
It's a lot of programming for a village whose defining trait, for most of its 700 years, was quiet: a farming community strung along the water, once part of the Waterlandse Unie that tried to compete commercially with Amsterdam and Monnickendam centuries ago, more recently reinvented as a commuter village for people who wanted a house on a dike instead of a canal-side apartment.
TravelHub's own walk through the Landsmeer countryside — filmed in July 2025, before any of this was announced — shows exactly the kind of ordinary polder scenery the anniversary programme spent 70 days celebrating: the fields, the cycling paths, the canals that have kept this land farmable since long before anyone was counting toward 700.
