City of Hoorn by night, featuring the current West-Frysian museum (in the 'Staten-Huys' from 1632). In the dark the statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen -- born in Hoorn, founder of trade post Batavia (now Jakarta), and responsible for the massacre at the Banda islands in 1621, killing or enslaving 4500-5000 people, to achieve a Dutch monopoly on nutmeg.
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#hoorn #westfriesmuseum #westfriesland #noordholland #statencollege #statenhuys #coen
