Historic sites in Netherlands

Historic sites

Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

Amsterdam, North Holland

The canal house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years in a secret annex behind a moving bookcase, until they were betrayed…

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Windmills of Kinderdijk

Slikkerveer, South Holland

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.

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Giethoorn

Giethoorn, Overijssel

A village with no roads in its old centre, where thatched farmhouses sit on little islands linked by more than 170 wooden footbridges over canals.

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Zaanse Schans

Zaanstad, North Holland

A village of green wooden houses and working windmills on the Zaan river, just north of Amsterdam, gathered here from around the region.