“North Holland’s fight against windmills is a fight against the future,” said lawmaker Liesbeth van Tongeren, who accused the province of “shutting its eyes” to the polluting effects of ...

Located just north of Amsterdam in North Holland, Zaanse Schans is a stunning open-air museum that captures the charm of traditional Dutch life. Known for its historic windmills, quaint wooden ...

In this corner of the Netherlands, visitors have been coming to photograph the iconic windmills since the 1950s. But they have a function — they’re helping the country stay above water.

Oct 24th, 2023. Updated over 1 year ago. Photography by Storm Jansen You need a lot of elements to align when it comes to surfing in the North Sea, especially if you’re in The Netherlands.

In 1961, an idea was proposed to bring an authentic windmill from the Netherlands to Holland to celebrate the city’s Dutch heritage. The country, though, had recently banned the export of windmills.

The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s as a way to clear water from the low-lying landscape of the western Netherlands. Sometime in the 1950s, the millers and water board members s… ...

KINDERDIJK, Netherlands -- The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s as a way to clear water from the low-lying landscape of the western Netherlands.

There are some windmills north of Amsterdam that "were built for the tourists, but we're a historical site where tourists come, so it's the other way around," says Kinderdijk communications manager ...

by John Marshall, The Associated Press, June 30, 2017 | The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s, and are a combination of Dutch history and modern-day functionality. Read more here.