The-Netherlands: attractions and places of interest

In the Dutch village of Bourtange there is an amazing eponymous fort, built in the shape of a star. It was built to control the road between Germany and the town of Groningen during the Netherlands bourgeois revolution. During the Eighty Years War ( Netherlands Revolution ) ( 1568 - 1648 ), the Spa...

Castle de Haar – a masterpiece of medieval architecture of the Netherlands, which is the country's largest and most luxurious castle. The castle was erected in XIV and named after the first owner of the stone fortress - Baron Van Zeilen Van Nefelt de Haar. The palace was repeatedly destroyed, it was...

Vondela Park – is located in the city of Amsterdam, which is the capital of the Netherlands. The total area of the park is 47 hectares. The date of its opening is 1865. In those days, he was known as Nieuwe Park, but after some time he was renamed Vondelpark, in the name of the famous playwright of ...

The city of miniatures of the Madurodam is the largest miniature park in the world and is located in the Netherlands. Madurodam is a typical city of this country, only on a scale of 1 to 25, which is located in the sea resort town of Scheveningen, which is one of the areas of The Hague. Here exhibi...

Giethoorn Village – is a small village in the Netherlands, but is very popular among tourists, as it simply enchants with its beauty. The location of the village is water channels, with a total length of 7.5 km. Here live 2620 people who consider the main luxury of this town – clean air and natural ...

Naarden is located in the Netherlands near Amsterdam. The sights of this city are its historical part, which is presented in the form of a fortress with an unusual hexagonal shape resembling a star. This is one of the surviving bastions, which is located in Europe. This fortress with double walls, a...

Zuid-Kennemerland - Netherlands National Park, spread over 38 km2, near the city of Haarlem. It was founded to protect sand dunes by the North Sea. The national park owns a pepper beach by the sea. Behind the beach there are sand dunes, which close the inner territories from cold winds from the sea...

De Hoghe Veluwe is a national park in the Netherlands in the province of Gelderland. The park’s ownership is small, only 55 km2, but nonetheless nature is quite interesting. Here there are such types of reliefs as: sands, vast territories overgrown with heather, swamps, coniferous forests. Sand appe...

Keukenhof is a royal flower park in the Netherlands, also sometimes called the Garden of Europe. A garden is being set in a city called Liss. The park is famous for the fact that almost 5 million tulips of more than a hundred varieties were planted on 32 hectares. Kyokenhof Park has a rich history....

Dwingelderveld – is a national reserve that belongs to the Netherlands. It is located in one of the provinces called Drente. The main goal of organizing a protected area – is to save the Dwingelderveld wasteland, the largest in all of Western Europe. The national park has dimensions of about 38 km2....