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Windmills at Kinderdijk
Jan 16, 2007 11:06 PM GMT Source:
NBTC
For my first post on Hollandtravelblog I'll tackle a Dutch icon: Windmills. There are over 1000 windmills in the Netherlands and if you spend any time in the country, you'll soon catch a glimpse of one. But if you want to see windmills at their very best, you have to head to Kinderdijk where, in the mid-1700's, 19 mills in 4 distinct styles, were built to power a complex system of pumps designed to keep water levels in balance. Nowadays Kinderdijk is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and




