Den Burg is a place to wander rather than tick off sights. The compact old centre, with its medieval street pattern around the Hervormde Kerk, repays a slow walk; the Oudheidkamer museum gives some background to what you are looking at; and the Monday market on the Groeneplaats is the weekly social event of the island. The bigger attractions of Texel — beaches, dunes, the seal centre at Ecomare — are short cycles away in every direction.