Haarlem is a small town of around 150,000 inhabitants, located some 20 kilometers from Amsterdam. It makes a perfect day-trip from the Dutch capital and can be easily reached by train. Haarlem’s historic city center boasts many protected monuments. Some of the most interesting sites to visit are the Grote Markt (“main market”) with the [...]
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Kijk Kubus, Rotterdam, Netherlands
February 22nd, 2010
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Kijk Kubus is an ensemble of cubic houses designed by Dutch architect Piet Blom and built between 1982 and 1984 in Rotterdam. It houses small businesses and shops downstairs and 38 cubic houses upstairs that are used as private apartments. The Kijk Kubus museum can be visited daily from 11am to 5pm and gives the [...]
The windmills at Kinderdijk, Netherlands
January 15th, 2010
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It’s impossible to imagine the Netherlands without the famous windmills! The largest and best preserved group of windmills in the Netherlands is located in the small town of Kinderdijk, 15 km from Rotterdam, which has been declared a World Heritage site by the UNESCO in 1997. The 19 mills were built around 1740 to drain [...]
