The number of those who sought cure and found it here is enormous.

It is the vacation-place by excellence.

There is a church with square tower and organ.

About the tower, the spire of which is failing, various opinions go round how this occured, by war, by shooting or storm.
The beautiful beech-grove in the center of the village, where a lot of forest-giants are rising in the sky in severe rows, is a favorite place, in the middle of which is a hill with fine pond.
A couple of years ago Geertruida Carelsen wrote in her Berlin letters that Muiderberg perhaps is the only bathing-place where sea and wood are united.

There are three well-known graveyards.
Of Muiden's very picturesque moated castle--the ideal castle of a romance--Peter Cornellissen Hooft, the poet and historian, was once custodian.