Zaanse Schans

North Holland · Netherlands

Zaanse Schans, Netherlands
Photo: Frila, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
April to September
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
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An open-air neighbourhood of preserved green wooden houses and working windmills sits along the Zaan river north of Amsterdam. Craft workshops for clogs, cheese, and pigments recreate life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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