Province Utrecht

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Province Utrecht

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The Province of Utrecht is located in the center of the Netherlands and is the country's smallest. Its center is the eponymous university city of Utrecht, and the province's second-largest city is Amersfoort.

The Province of Utrecht is located in the center of the Netherlands and is the country's smallest. Its center is the eponymous university city of Utrecht, and the province's second-largest city is Amersfoort.The west consists of polderland. In the northeast, the Utrechtse Heuvelrug stretches through the province, a wooded sandy area with hills up to nearly 70 meters high.

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Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht is the fourth-largest city in the Netherlands, centrally located in the country – a university city with canals, whose landmark is the 112.5-meter-high Dom Tower, the tallest church tower in the Netherlands. Since a tornado destroyed the nave of the Dom Cathedral in 1674, the tower has stood freely next to the rest of the church.The city has around 376,000 inhabitants and is the capital of its namesake province. Its university, founded in 1636, is the largest in the country. Utrecht boasts a UNESCO World Heritage site of modern architecture in the 1924 Rietveld-Schröder House, and Utrecht Centraal main station is a vital hub in the Dutch railway network.

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Utrecht

Utrecht

Utrecht is the fourth-largest city in the Netherlands, centrally located in the country – a university city with canals, whose landmark is the 112.5-meter-high Dom Tower, the tallest church tower in the Netherlands. Since a tornado destroyed the nave of the Dom Cathedral in 1674, the tower has stood freely next to the rest of the church.The city has around 376,000 inhabitants and is the capital of its namesake province. Its university, founded in 1636, is the largest in the country. Utrecht boasts a UNESCO World Heritage site of modern architecture in the 1924 Rietveld-Schröder House, and Utrecht Centraal main station is a vital hub in the Dutch railway network.

Gouda

Gouda

Gouda gave its name to the Netherlands' most famous cheese: it is produced in the surrounding area and has been traded here for centuries – every Thursday morning from April to August at the cheese market. This city in Zuid-Holland is also the home of the Stroopwafel and was long known for candles and clay pipes.In the middle of the market square stands one of the country's oldest Gothic town halls, built between 1448 and 1450. The Sint-Janskerk, at 123 meters, is the longest cruciform church in the Netherlands and famous for its 70 stained-glass windows. Gouda has around 76,000 inhabitants and is located at the confluence of the Gouwe and Hollandse IJssel.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and by far its most visited destination: a city of 165 canals and almost 1,300 bridges, whose 17th-century canal ring has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2010. Here, Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" hangs in the Rijksmuseum, along with the world's most famous Van Gogh collection, and here stands the Anne Frank House.The city originated in the 13th century on a dam in the Amstel and is located on the IJ, a former sea inlet. With approximately 936,000 inhabitants, it is the country's largest city; however, the government and parliament are situated in The Hague, about 60 kilometers away.

Kinderdijk

Kinderdijk

In Kinderdijk, about 15 kilometres east of Rotterdam, 19 18th-century windmills stand along the canals – an ensemble that has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997. They were built around 1740 to drain the Alblasserwaard polder.Today, two diesel pumping stations handle most of the work, but some windmills are still operational. The name means “Children's Dike” and refers to a legend from the St. Elizabeth's Flood of 1421: A cradle with a sleeping child is said to have been washed ashore here, kept balanced by a cat.

's-Hertogenbosch

's-Hertogenbosch

’s-Hertogenbosch, briefly Den Bosch, is the capital of the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, about 80 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam. You’ll come for the Gothic Sint-Janskathedraal, for a boat trip on the partly underground Binnendieze and for the traces of the painter Hieronymus Bosch, who lived here.