Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (24 March 1607 – 29 April 1676) is the most famous and one of the most skilled admirals in Dutch history. De Ruyter is most famous for his role in the Anglo-Dutch Wars of ...
The Netherlands is frequently associated with polders. This is illustrated by the English saying: God created the world but the Dutch created Holland. The Dutch have a long history of reclamation of ...
A sex museum is a museum that displays erotic art, historical sexual aids, and documents on the history of erotica. They were popular in Europe at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s, the era ...
... All three are men are linked to the history of Groningen. The tower is tilting about 0.6 m,[3] according to reports[citation needed] the tower has a foundation of only three metres deep. The citizens of ...
The Amsterdam Museum, until 2011 called the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, is a museum about the history of Amsterdam. Since 1975, it is located in the old city orphanage between Kalverstraat and Nieuwezijds ...
Content, Eli (1943) Does, Hermine van (glasatelier) The Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish Historical Museum) is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands ...
The Dutch Golden Age, was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military, and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is ...
... and the Council of State. Only once during its history was Amsterdam both "capital" and seat of government. Between 1808 and 1810, during the Kingdom of Holland, King Louis Napoleon resided in Amsterdam ...
... skaters). It is held in the province of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands, touching every city (by history) of the province. It is held, in practice in January or February and not more than once ...
Teylers Museum (Dutch: Teylers Museum, pronounced [ˈtɛilərs myˈzeɪʏm]) is an art, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Established in 1778, Teylers Museum was originally founded ...
The Maritime Museum Rotterdam is a maritime museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Dedicated to naval history, it was founded in 1873 by Prince Henry of the Netherlands.
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... NAI was established in 1988 and has been based in Rotterdam since 1993. The NAI is a private organisation with a government brief, which is to manage the collection of archives that document the history ...
Museon is a museum for science and culture in The Hague, Netherlands. It has collections in the domains of geology, biology, archaeology, history, science and ethnology.
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... mills and the cheese market. Also you learn fun facts about the Dutch people via interactive touch screens (in seven languages). Experience our fascinating history and see how the Deltaworks keep our country ...
... claim uninterrupted habitation since Roman times. A large number of archeological finds confirms this. Nijmegen has a gap in its history: there is practically no evidence of habitation in the early Middle ...
The Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish Historical Museum) is a museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands ...
... by the Dutch architect Daniël Stalpaert and constructed in 1656. The museum moved to this building in 1973. The museum is dedicated to maritime history and contains many artifacts associated with shipping ...
The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, located on the Museumplein. The museum is dedicated to arts, crafts, and history. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden ...
... recognizable feature is a 75-meter-high brick tower that leans about two meters from the vertical.
History
The Oude Kerk was founded as St. Bartholomew's Church in the year 1246, on the ...
... canals, Delft Blue pottery, the Delft University of Technology, painter Johannes Vermeer and scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek, and its association with the royal House of Orange-Nassau.
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Enkhuizen is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.
History
Enkhuizen was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, just like ...
... it in 1616. The Hoorn Islands of the Oceanian nation of Wallis and Futuna are also named after this city.
History
Founded in 716, Hoorn rapidly grew to become a major harbour town. During Holland's ...
... birthplace of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Vlissingen is mainly noted for the yards on the Scheldt where most of the ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine) are built.
History
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... Haringvliet and the Volkerak.
History
The Hollands Diep was formed as a result of the extensive flooding event of 1216, which breached the dunes of Voorne and created a deep saltwater inlet (the ...
... Sea. Harlingen is a town with a long history of fishing and shipping. Harlingen received city rights in 1234.
Harlingen is served by two stations on the railway line from Leeuwarden. From 1904 to ...
... known as the bolwerken (bulwarks). It is the fifth most popular shopping city in Friesland. It also has the smallest hospital of the Netherlands.
The best known event in Dokkum's history is ...
... returnfrequently to a group of motifs and characters: ice-cream cones, thumbs-up, Disney-esque fawns, as well as more clichéd images from art history – flowers, skulls ...
These fourteen "main lines of the canon" are meant to serve as background texts to the fifty windows. They are the red threads running through the history of the Netherlands that indicate ...
... history. After a lot of walking, the Rijksmuseum is a great place to rest and get some extra culture before visiting Amsterdam’s lovely Vondelpark.
The medieval Old Centre with the always ...
... This ‘United Europe’, also known as the ‘Zevenlandenhuizen’ (Seven Country Houses) was designed by architect Tjeerd Kuipers (1858-1942) with the intention to depict the history ...
... dialect.
History
The earliest reference to the name Sceveninghe goes back to around 1280.
The first inhabitants may have been Anglo-Saxons. Other historians favour a Scandinavian origin. ...
... Skating Book hotels close to this landmark Amsterdam IBC Book hotels close to this landmark Amsterdam International Institute of Social History Book hotels close to this landmark Amsterdam Leidseplein ...
... with Robert Falcon Scott through the barren landscape of the Antarctic (1910-1912). Willem van de Poll takes us right into history with his photographic report of German troops marching into Sudetenland, ...
... km line of forts and land that had been inundated in the past) to protect Amsterdam from invaders, are very interesting sights for tourists interested in the Dutch history with water. Delta Works, Verdronken ...
... Utrecht — historic centre, antique stores and the Rietveld-Schröder House
* Leeuwarden — the city has lots of history to offer, plus an insight in the proud local culture ...
... such as Zutphen, Zwolle, Doesburg, among others.
* Southern Netherlands (Limburg, North Brabant, Zeeland)
Divided from the rest by its Catholic history, carnival celebrations and its "Burgundian ...
... of the region, as well as the maritime history of the Zuiderzee.
Another devastating flood struck the country in 1953, recording 1,836 deaths in the province of Zeeland. In the following fifty years, ...
... Nowadays, Zandvoort generates half of its income through tourism. For a glimpse of the rich history of the resort, be sure to visit the Zandvoort Museum.
Sun and sea
A promenade runs parallel ...
... a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ...
... walk through the Hanseatic history of Groningen. The traces of this period may no longer be very distinct, but there is lots to explore for observant strollers. The walk is available at the Tourist Information ...
... 13 has a rich history and is a remnant of an era when large ocean-going ships were built at the NDSM shipyard in Amsterdam. In more recent times creative and enterprising residents have repurposed the ...
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... the founding of the International Criminal Court were milestones in the history of human kind. The establishment of these milestones was preceded by more than 100 years of discussions, starting with the ...
... which offers a window onto this crucial period in the city's history; while, in a converted wool mill, the artists and exhibits on view at Museum De Pont push the boundaries of contemporary art. The ...
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History
Hunter gatherers set up camps in the Amersfoort region in the Mesolithic period. Archaeologists have found traces of these camps, such as the remains of hearths, and sometimes microlithic ...
... the longest tunnel for highway traffic in The Netherlands.
History
The tunnel was built by a consortium of Franki Construct, Heijmans, Royal BAM Group, Philipp Holzmann, TBI Beton- en Waterbouw ...
... known as the bolwerken ( = bulwarks).
History
The best known event in Dokkum's history is the assassination of the Anglo-Saxon missionary Saint Boniface in 754. Oliver of Cologne preached ...
... faculties, nine graduate schools, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175 degree programmes.
History
The founding of the University in 1614 – at that time still a college ...
Resulted from the cooperation between a number of North-German merchants the Hanseatic League grew in the 14th and 15th century into a powerful economic factor.
Its main objectives were to protect ...
... Kamperveen, Wilsum and Zalk.
History
Middle Ages
By 1150, there were already wooden buildings on the site where Kampen is currently located. The name Kampen, however, is not mentioned ...
... free accessible as well.
* In Delden you can visit the Gothic Saint Blasius Church (built in the 15th century).
* Delden has the Dutch Salt Museum (Zoutmuseum), about salt, its history, ...
... railway station via a 15-minute bus drive to the Wageningen central terminal.
History
The oldest known settlements in the Wageningen area were located north of today's town center. They were ...
... retaining its name. The municipality has about 47,000 inhabitants.
Zutphen is also twinned with the English town Shrewsbury, in the Midlands county of Shropshire.
History
About 300 AD a Germanic ...
... 2011).
History
The first mention of Nijmegen in history is in the 1st century BC, when the Romans built a military camp on the place where Nijmegen was to appear; the location had great strategic ...
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On 1 January 2005, a municipal reorganization merged the neighbouring municipality of Wehl into Doetinchem.
History
It is known from archaeological finds of skulls, pottery shards, and ...
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History
A document referring to Hattem is found is dated around 800. This document is the Codex Laureshamensis, in which the settlement Hattem is mentioned because two farmhouses in this place ...
... a total area of 29.86 km2 and as of 2007 it has a population of 21,104 inhabitants.
History
Geertruidenberg is named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles.
In 1213, Sint Geertruidenberg (English: ...
... Paris. There she met the painter Eduard Manet, who was married to her in the St. Maartenskerk (St. Martin’s Church).
History in a nutshell
The earliest recordings on Zaltbommel date back ...
... is the oldest city in Holland and has a rich history and culture.
Etymology
The name Dordrecht comes from Thyre, the name of a river, and Middle Dutch drecht "ford", thus meaning "Thure ...
... summer months? Visitors to Gouda are assured of a very special day out!
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Discover the history of Leiden
Leiden boasts over 2,700 monuments:from almshouses to windmills ...
... translates as "lock at the foot of the Helle". The Helle was a small local river which disappeared over time.
The history of Hellevoetsluis has always been connected with water. During ...
... first ecological disasters caused by mankind in it's history, only to reversed when it started creating economical havoc (in the Veluwe region, for example, when the dunes started threatening cities ...
... history of Dutch architecture. Moreover, as a sector institute for architecture it is also tasked with supporting the professional field. The building also houses a bookshop and a cafe.
The Museum ...
... 160 acres (650,000 m²). This area has changed only marginally over the course of its history. However, the park's foundation owns a much larger area of land, covered mostly with young forest, ...
... and watersport (Sneekweek). Sneek is one of the Friese elf steden (Eleven cities). The city is very important for the southwest area of Friesland (the "Zuidwesthoek").
History
Sneek ...
... national park in the Netherlands, founded in 2002.
Landscape and History
During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St. Felix's Flood of 1530, it flowed ...