Took the train over to Naarden on Sunday. You can take the train over to a lot of places in the Netherlands.
Naarden is a surviving medieval town with the characteristic and striking "star" shape (often called a star fort) that is a product of defensive fortifications of that time.
The feature that is the defining element of the star fort is the bastion (also named bulwark, derived from the Dutch name
"bolwerk") which is an angular structure projecting outward from the curtain
wall of the main fortification.
A fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks with
fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and also the
adjacent bastions. It is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. The
fortifications at Naarden date to 1673 when they were updated to 'modern' standards. Most of the
fortifications that exist there today date from this period.
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