Attractions

Living Traditions -- As you explore Zeeland, keep an eye out for the local costume: a long, simple black dress with a blue pinafore, still worn on occasion in Walcheren and Zuid-Beveland. (In the latter, the women wearing bonnets shaped like conch shells are Protestant, while those wearing trapezoidal bonnets with a light-blue underbonnet are Catholic.) The gold-and-silver ornaments you see worn by both men and women with the national costume can be bought as souvenirs.

If you're lucky, you'll happen on the traditional game of ringsteken, in which contestants ride on bare horseback and try, as they gallop past, to thrust a pointed stick through a ring dangling from a line strung high between two poles.