Curated Itinerary
A September Week in the Netherlands: Ten Heritage Places
Ten heritage places in one September loop through the Netherlands: the canal ring of Amsterdam and the fort lines that […]
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From Amsterdam Canal Ring – Grachtengordel, Netherlands – Virtual Tour 360° to Royal Delft Museum (De Porceleyne Fles), in the order we curated them.
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Ten heritage places in one September loop through the Netherlands: the canal ring of Amsterdam and the fort lines that defended it, heritage Haarlem and the Beemster polder; the great pumping station of Friesland and the reclaimed island of Schokland in the water country; then Rietveld’s house in Utrecht, the windmills of Kinderdijk, the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam and old Delft. Timed for the Dutch Open Monumentendagen, in September. Each stop links to its full entry in the archive; download the GPX or KML for your own navigator.
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Amsterdam Canal Ring – Grachtengordel, Netherlands – Virtual Tour 360°
In the early 17th century, Amsterdam undertook one of the greatest urban planning projects in history. Between 1613 and 1663, the city systematically…
Dutch Water Defence Lines
A UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising two historic Dutch defence systems—the Stelling van Amsterdam and the New Dutch Waterline—that used water…
Cathedral of St Bavo, Haarlem
A Neo-Gothic cathedral designed by Joseph Cuypers (1895–1930) that reclaimed Catholic worship in Haarlem after the Reformation, now housing a treasury…
Beemster Polder (1612): the Geometric Landscape of Dutch Hydraulic Engineering (Beemster, Netherlands)
A nord di Amsterdam si distende un paesaggio che sembra disegnato a squadra e compasso: il Beemster è il primo grande polder dei Paesi Bassi, strappato alle…
Woudagemaal Steam Pumping Station (1920): the Machine That Keeps the Netherlands Dry (Lemmer, Netherlands)
In Olanda, dove gran parte della terra è strappata all'acqua, una macchina del 1920 continua a fare il suo lavoro: il Woudagemaal, la più grande stazione di…
Schokland and Surroundings
An abandoned island bearing seven thousand years of human occupation — from Neolithic pile-dwellers to medieval fishermen — now stranded in the middle of a…
Rietveld Schröder House
The most radical house of the early twentieth century — built in 1924 in Utrecht by Gerrit Rietveld for Truus Schroder-Schrader — is the only…
Kinderdijk windmills
Nineteen monumental windmills built 1738–1740 in South Holland form the largest concentration of historic mills in the Netherlands.
Van Nelle Factory
A modernist masterpiece on Rotterdam's Schie River, the Van Nelle Factory exemplifies functionalist design.
Royal Delft Museum (De Porceleyne Fles)
The only surviving Delftware factory from the seventeenth century, De Porceleyne Fles has produced its signature blue-and-white pottery without interruption…
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