The-Netherlands: attractions and places of interest

In the Dutch village of Burtange there is an amazing fort of the same name, built in the shape of a star. It was built to control the road between Germany and the town of Groningen during the Dutch Bourgeois Revolution. During the Eighty Years' War (Dutch Revolution) (1568-1648), the Spanish in Gro...

Castle de Haar is a masterpiece of medieval architecture in the Netherlands, which is the largest and most luxurious castle in the country. The castle was built in the 14th century and named after the first owner of the stone fortress, Baron Van Zijlen Van Nefelt de Haar. The palace was repeatedly d...

Vondela Park is located in Amsterdam, which is the capital of the Netherlands. The total area of the park is 47 hectares. The date of its opening is 1865. At that time it was known as Nieuwe Park, but after a while it was renamed Vondelpark, in the name of the famous playwright of that time Joost va...

The miniature city of Madurodam is the most extensive miniature park in the whole 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 seaside resort town of Scheveningen, which is one of the districts of The Hague....

The village of Giethoorn is a small village in the Netherlands, but it is very popular among tourists, as it simply enchants with its beauty. The location of the village is the water channels, with a total length of 7.5 km. 2,620 people live here, who consider clean air and natural silence to be the...

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

Zuid-Kennemerland is a national park of the Netherlands, spread over an area of 38 km2, near the city of Haarlem. It was founded to protect the sand dunes near the North Sea. The National Park owns a sandy beach by the sea. Behind the beach there are sand dunes, which cover the interior from the co...

De Hoge Veluwe is a national park in the Netherlands in the province of Gelderland. The park's holdings are small, only 55 km2, but nevertheless the nature is quite interesting. There are such types of landforms as: sands, huge territories overgrown with heather, swamps, coniferous forests. The sand...

Keukenhof is the royal flower park in the Netherlands, and it is also sometimes called the Garden of Europe. A garden is being built in a town called Liss. The park is famous for the fact that almost 5 million tulips of more than a hundred varieties have been planted on 32 hectares. Keukenhof Park ...

Dwingelderveld is a national nature reserve that belongs to the Netherlands. It is located in one of the provinces named Drenthe. The main purpose of the organization of the protected area is to preserve the Dwingelderveld wasteland, the largest in all of Western Europe. The National Park has a size...