The UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Defence Line of Amsterdam (in Dutch named Stelling van Amsterdam) is a 135 km long ring of fortifications around Amsterdam, consisting of 42 forts located ...
The Nationaal Luchtvaart-Themapark Aviodrome (short also Aviodrome) is a large aerospace museum in the Netherlands that has been located on Lelystad Airport since 2003. Previously the museum was located ...
... and sailing. The collection contains, among other things, paintings, scale models, weapons and world maps. The paintings depict Dutch naval officers such as Michiel de Ruyter and impressive historical ...
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 ...
Alkmaar is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Alkmaar is well known for its traditional cheese market. For tourists, it is a popular cultural destination. ...
Hoorn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on the Markermeer, 35 kilometres north of Amsterdam, and acquired city rights in 1357. Hoorn had ...
Arnemuiden is a small city of around 5000 people in the municipality of Middelburg in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is located on the former island of Walcheren, about 3 km east of ...
Middelburg (Dutch: [ˈmɪdəlˌbɵrx] ( listen)) is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland ...
Vlissingen is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been ...
Zierikzee (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzi.rɪk.ˌseː]) is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and ...
The Oosterscheldekering (in English: Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the 13 ambitious Delta Works series of dams and ...
The Haringvliet sluices are a construction that closed off the estuary of the Haringvliet as part of the Delta Works. The structure consists of 17 sluices, several kilometres of dam and a shipping lock. ...
... events and can no longer be recognised on maps.
River crossings
At this point where the Hollands Diep splits, there is a road traffic node on an artificial island (the Hellegatsplein), connecting ...
The Moerdijk bridges in the Netherlands are bridges that connect the Island of Dordrecht with the Dutch province of North Brabant (Noord Brabant) across the Hollands Diep. The first bridge was built ...
Harlingen ['hɑrlɪŋə(n)] (About this sound pronunciation (help·info), West Frisian: Harns) is a municipality and a city in the northern Netherlands, in the province of Friesland at the Wadden ...
The Amstel Gold Race is an annual road bicycle race in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing ...
Have you always wanted to be a captain for the Holland America Line? Now you can!
Sleep in the former head office of this beautiful steamship company with your parents and take a real watertaxi ...
... the Roman Empire. In later centuries, the region became part of other large empires. It was only from about 1590 that the first contours of the modern-day Netherlands began to be mapped. However, the borders ...
... throughout the capital.
There are routes for walking or cycling; and our beautiful guidebook, complete with maps, gives visitors all the details they could want about locations, varieties and names. ...
... Dutch bars literally round the corner. Amsterdam City Centre is a great choice for travellers interested in food, nightlife and walking.
Google Maps Amsterdam:
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... choice for travellers interested in food, nightlife and walking.
Google Maps Amsterdam
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... Netherlands to a large extent. Amsterdam is still very popular with visitors from Belgium.
Belgian merchants and map makers on Dam square
Important merchants, originally from Belgium, used to ...
... projects, converting lakes, marshy areas and adjoining mudflats into polders. This continued right into the 20th century. As a result, historical maps of mediaeval and early modern Holland bear little ...
Museum quarter in Amsterdam RijksmuseumNestled south of Leidseplein is the plush 19th century Museum quarter (Museumplein). Unashamedly, Museum quarter is the pinnacle of sophistication and home to ...
... 300,000 maps and drawings and 330 terabytes of digital footage, they serve as the memory of the Netherlands. Whether you are looking for the archives of our parliament, the Dutch East India Company ...
“Unique in its kind,” announced Napoleon when he arrived at the Zaanse Schans. 600 windmills made up the world’s first industrial area. Today, the 250-year-old windmill park is a fascinating ...
Amsterdam fans out south from the Amsterdam Centraal railway station. The oldest area of the town is known as de Wallen (the quays). It lies to the east of Damrak and contains the city's famous ...
Station Amsterdam Centraal is the largest railway station of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and a major national railway hub. Used by 260,000 passengers a day, it is the second-busiest railway station in the ...
Station Amsterdam Centraal is the largest railway station of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and a major national railway hub. Used by 260,000 passengers a day, it is the second-busiest railway station in the ...
... (National Maritime Museum) Amsterdam
The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam houses the oldest picture of New York: a view of the Nieuw Amsterdam settlement, which is included in a 17th-century map ...
... is free.
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Map of Amsterdam
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... of its highly regarded acoustics, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with places such as Boston's Symphony Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna.
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... from Amsterdam Marketing, Provincie Noord-Holland and Nationale Vereniging de Zonnebloem.
In the guide users can find short accessible routes through the city, which are visualized with maps. There ...
If you were to draw a horizontal line through the centre of the Netherlands, (leaving Amsterdam aside) you would be left with Groningen as the largest city in the top half.
This automatically ...
The city includes apartments, working-class houses, newly-built houses, offices, historic mansions, warehouses, hospices, courts and modern schools and museums; from the old Gold Office to the brand-new ...
In the fourteenth century, Groningen became a member of the Hanseatic League (1282-1669), a collaboration of merchants primarily from Germany, Scandinavia, England, Poland, the Baltic States, Russia ...
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art is an international public institution with Rotterdam as its home base. Established in 1990, Witte de With explores developments in contemporary art worldwide. ...