The windmills of Kinderdijk – one of the best known Dutch tourist sites | Netherlands

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The windmills of Kinderdijk are the most famous Dutch landscape on Earth, 19 beautifully preserved 18th-century windmills lined up along the canals of the Alblasserwaard polder near Rotterdam, forming a UNESCO World heritage site that is the single strongest image of the Netherlands in the global imagination. More than just a photo opportunity, Kinderdijk is […]

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Toruń – Gothic architecture at its best, and the birthplace of Copernicus | Poland

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Toruń is one of Poland’s most beautiful and historically significant cities, a UNESCO World heritage Gothic masterpiece on the banks of the Vistula River whose perfectly preserved medieval Old Town of red-brick churches, merchant houses, and defensive walls is one of the finest ensembles of Gothic architecture in Europe. Birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus in 1473, […]

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Sweden – open and accepting society

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Sweden is Scandinavia’s largest, most populous, and most diverse country, an open and accepting society that spans from the cosmopolitan streets of Stockholm to the Arctic wilderness of Lapland, from the sandy beaches of the Baltic island of Gotland to the vast forests and thousands of lakes that define the Swedish landscape and the national […]

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