To the west of Alkmaar, across the former Egmonder Meer, which was drained in 1556, is Egmond aan den Hoef, the ancestral seat of the Counts of Egmond, who later established themselves in the southern Netherlands. The remains of their castle, destroyed by the Spaniards in 1573, can still be seen.

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