Spakenburg is a Dutch village north of
Bunschoten
Bunschoten () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It lies about 7 km north of Amersfoort. Its territory comprises the original municipality of Bunschoten (created in 1204 by the bishop of Utrecht) ...
. Spakenburg is formally called
Bunschoten-Spakenburg since its fusion with Bunschoten. The village lies south of the
IJsselmeer
The IJsselmeer (; fy, Iselmar, nds-nl, Iesselmeer), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed off inland bay in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland. It covers an area of with an a ...
in the municipality Bunschoten,
Utrecht
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. It is one of the few places left in the Netherlands where some women still wear local traditional clothes.
In the 20th century, the two villages have grown quickly, and since about 1965 they form one single town, officially named Bunschoten.
The
football teams
IJsselmeervogels and
SV Spakenburg
SV Spakenburg is a Dutch football club based in Bunschoten. It was founded in 1931 and currently competes in the Tweede Divisie. It shares a football rivalry with IJsselmeervogels that is also from Bunschoten-Spakenburg.
History
The club was ...
are located there, and contest one of the most popular local rivalries in Dutch amateur football.
Also the
basketball
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team
BC Shooters
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* Before Christ, a calendar era based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
* British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada
* Baja California, a state of Mexico
BC may also refer ...
is located there.
On the last two Wednesday in July and the first two Wednesday of August, there is an event in Spakenburg called the Spakenburgse Dagen (Spakenburg days), in which people dress up in local traditional clothing and dance and generally celebrate. There is a roundabout, a clown for the children, a big market and music.
Bunschoten
Populated places in Utrecht (province)
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