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Haarlem

Haarlem

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Haarlem is a quaint city that is located near the coast and the tulip fields. It has a beautiful historic centre with a Gothic cathedral, a windmill, and some of the best museums in the Netherlands, such as the Frans Hals Museum and the Teylers Museum. You can get to Haarlem by train from Amsterdam in about 20 minutes.

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OOSTERPLAS
MOLENPLAS, HAARLEM
RECREATIEPLAS TOOLENBURG, SPEELVIJVER
VEERPLAS NOORDZIJDE
WESTBROEKPLAS
NAAKTRECREATIE, SPAARNWOUDE
IJMUIDEN KLEIN STRAND
BLOEMENDAAL AAN ZEE
STRAND NOORDPIER, VELSEN
HAARLEMMERMEERSE BOS, SPARTELVIJVER
RECREATIEPLAS TOOLENBURG, GROTE STRAND
VILLA WESTEND, WESTBROEKPLAS
PEDDELPOEL
KENNEMERSTRAND
HAARLEMMERMEERSE BOS, ZUIDSTRAND
Dutch Water Defence Lines
  • Category: Cultural

  • The Dutch Water Defence Lines represents a defence system extending over 200 km along the edge of the administrative and economic heartland of Holland. It is comprised of the New Dutch Waterline and the Defence Line of Amsterdam. Built between 1815 and 1940, the system consists of a network of forts, dikes, sluices, pumping stations, canals and inundation polders, working in concert to protect the Netherlands by applying the principle of temporary flooding of the land. It has been developed thanks to the special knowledge of hydraulic engineering for defence purposes held and applied by the people of the Netherlands since the 16th century. Each of the polders along the line of fortifications has its own inundation facilities.

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