Laren is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called 't Gooi, it is the oldest town in that area. It is one of the richest towns in the Netherlands, along with its neighbour Blaricum. Nationally, Laren is well-known for its wide array of clothing shops.Laren The village lies in the heart of the Gooi. It is the oldest town in the Gooi. The original name is Laer, meaning "open space" means.
8000 years ago lived on the place where now the South Heath is situated in the northern nomads coming with their reindeer. Later, approximately in the middle of the Bronze Age (1500 BC). Laren and area residents include the Beaker culture (the name comes from the shape of the pottery that they used).
The Western and Southern Heide are tumuli (burial mounds) are present. The South Heath near 't Bluk are seven of these terpjes, known as the Seven mounds. Still later appeared and disappeared successively, the Celts, Teutons, Franks, Angles, Saxons and Frisians. Around 400 farmers settled to the east of the present St. John's Cemetery. This outstanding eng (land), near the sports fields of LVV, the village is the birthplace of Laren. The repeated invasions and wars farmers have pulled back into a neighborhood in case of emergency assistance to each other can easily provide. This place is the present seven. Later we dropped down to the lower part of this place, now called the "Brink". The pool there was never dry and was mainly used as for watering livestock. This was the typical pond this exact Coeswaerde "derived from" Koewade "(Wade: watering). From this arose the present Laren.
