Holidays in Holland (Netherlands) Business in the Netherlands. Amsterdam.
Holidays in Holland (Netherlands) - a vacation in the wonderful country of tulips, Dutch cheese, windmills and free love. Tourists
from around the world attract here countless museums, well-preserved
architecture and a well-developed entertainment industry.
Netherlands
are divided into twelve provinces of Drenthe, Friesland, Geldern,
Groningen, Limburg, North Brabant, Holland, Overeyssel, South Holland,
Utrecht and Flevoland Zealand.
Most tourists vacationing in the Netherlands tend to visit the capital city - Amsterdam, located in the North of Holland. Amsterdam - a city of freedom, where there are no restrictions. This is an amazing place that attracts a variety of travelers with its history, culture and of course the nightlife.
In the city of 160 channels through which, nowadays more than 1,200 bridges. Four
main channels crescent surround the historic center of the city and
give it a resemblance to Venice, Amsterdam so often called - "Venice of
the North." Holidays in the Netherlands. Gouda.
In Amsterdam, there are many wonderful museums: Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Amsterdam Historical Museum, the famous Riksmuzeum.
Beer lovers will be delighted with the visit to the factory and the Museum of beer by "Heineken". Also
worth visiting is the famous wax museum Madame Tussauds and the museum
of erotica, also called the "Temple of Venus" - the oldest sex museum in
the world. Have a look at the diamond factory, and you will learn how diamonds are cut, turning them into diamonds Be
sure to visit Harlem - a city with lots of curved canals and medieval
streets, containing some wonderful museums: Frans Hals, industrial art
museum in the castle of the XVIII century., As well as the Church of St.
Bavo with a unique body of 5,000 pipes.
Discover the distinctive features of the traditional life of the Dutch in the Zaanse Schans. In
this village you will meet people in beautiful national costumes and
famous wooden shoes - klompenah, which are one of the business cards of
the country.
In
Zaandam (20 kilometers north of Amsterdam) interesting view the house
of Peter I and architectural open-air museum "Zaandam in the XVII
century.". Zaandam
is located north of the famous Alkmaar ("surrounded by water") - the
only city in the world, where to this day preserved medieval cheese
fairs and even guild "cheese porters". It
also has a museum of cheese, a museum complex Tsaans Chance, National
Museum of beer in an old brewery, Dutch oven Museum and the City Museum
of History and Art.
The most important province of the country - South Holland - offers a stunning selection of interesting places to visit. Netherlands - a country of tulips.
Rotterdam - the second largest city of the Netherlands and the largest port in the world. Old
Rotterdam was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War,
so the old monuments almost did not survive, but rebuilt a modern city
amazes visitors bold architectural solutions and business activity. Among
the interesting museums Academy of Art, the Museum of Ethnography,
Museum of Entomology Museum, Rotterdam Conservatory and Zoo.
The Hague - the third largest city in the country. Here is the parliament, the royal residence, most ministries, embassies and the International Court of Justice. The main attraction of the city - Madurodam. This open-air museum, a working model of Holland in miniature. Here you see all that the famous Netherlands.
The city is famous for the production of Gouda cheese and clay pipes. Delft
- the city of the famous blue and white porcelain, the cradle of the
Dutch Republic and the traditional burial place of the royal family.
Leiden - the birthplace of Rembrandt and Jan Shteena and home trade tulips. So far, flower greenhouses and fields occupy large areas in many parts of the Netherlands. The most prominent is the area between Leiden and Haarlem, called the "glass city". Every year across the country are flower auctions. Holidays in the Netherlands. Windmill.
Rich lakes of Friesland offers a great winter holiday for those who like ice skating. Groningen
is known for its university, the church of St. Martin (XIII-XVIvv.) and
the remains of a Roman settlement, and Drenthe, the "green province",
is dotted with prehistoric monuments.
Four central provinces - Utrecht, Geldern, Overeyssel and Flevoland - boast enough variety of native species. Three
great rivers of Holland - the Rhine, Maas and Waal, pass through these
regions, creating a natural division of the country into north and
south. If
not for the forest Geldern and Utrecht, the Netherlands most would
consist of flat green fields with the farmers, so often described by
Dutch painters. Overeysselya barely affected area tourism and the province of Flevoland, there is only since 1986. In Utrecht, you can see the renowned museums such as rail, center and Museum Society of Arts and Sciences.
Coastal
Zealand, always being under potential threat from the sea, protected by
massive dikes and dams, for which there are a number of resorts and
restaurants with sea food. North
Brabant holds most of the marshy nature reserve Bisbosh and Eyndoven
city that hosts the main office e corporation Philips.
