Monday, June 11, 2018

Day 16 Kinderdijk, The Netherlands

68°F
TEMP
49%
CHANCE OF RAIN
AVERAGE WEATHER IN JUNE
Central European Time Zone (UTC+01:00)
TIME ZONE
Dutch
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Euro 
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Located where the Lek and Noord Rivers meet, Kinderdijk is a village community in the Alblasserwaard province. This corner of South Holland, part of the scenic Waal and Merwede regions, has long been shaped by Rhine Delta waters. Kinderdijk is most known for its 19 remarkably preserved 18th-century windmills. The charming hamlet is located amidst low-lying polders, tracts of land reclaimed from the sea by the power of the windmills and enclosed by embankments, or dikes. This legendary place calls to mind the 1865 novel, Hans Brinker, in which a heroic boy plugs his finger into a ruptured dike.




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