Nineteen 18th-century windmills standing in rows along the canals of a polder near Rotterdam, built to pump water out of the low-lying land. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the classic picture of Holland.
Walking or cycling along the dykes is free; a ticket gets you into two museum mills where millers still live, and a boat tour. Get there by the Waterbus ferry from Rotterdam. Go early or late in the day for the best light and fewer people.
Rotterdam, rebuilt after the bombing of 1940, is the Netherlands' city of bold modern architecture.
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