The Stadhuis on the Markt is one of the finest Gothic town halls in the Netherlands, its flamboyant stone facade covered in pinnacles, tracery, and a row of niches holding statues of the Counts and Countesses of Zeeland. The building is still in active use as the municipal seat of government, which gives it a vitality that purely ceremonial monuments often lack.
The interior can be visited on guided tours, which reveal the alderman's room, the marriage hall, and the original weigh house. The ground floor once served as a commercial exchange where merchants traded in spices, cloth, and colonial goods from across the Dutch trading empire.