The charm of windmill, Netherlands

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Keukenhof
Every time I hear the word "Dutch", which definitely is pictured in our minds windmills, tulips, colonial-style buildings, and canals. Yes, Holland is famous for its beauty as it is decorated by four of these things. Countries that once colonized Indonesia for 3.5 century is bordered by Germany and Belgium. Here are the three most popular tourist destinations in the country windmill:

Keukenhof

Very famous flower garden located in Lisse, a small town near Amsterdam. An area of 32 hectares was created in 1949 by the future mayor of Lisse, in order to show off the interest from all over Europe in order later to become the Dutch flower exporter in the world. Fifty years later, Keukenhof has been the world's largest flower garden. At least as many as seven million flower seedlings planted each year in the garden, with tulips as the main varieties.
There are a number of gardens with different styles in Keukenhof, namely:
• English landscape garden, a long walkway with a row of flowers at the edges
• Historical garden, where a collection of ancient relics interest
• Nature garden, is a combination of a small lake, shrubs and trees
• Japanese garden, the Japanese-style garden

In addition to tulips, flowers such as lavender, roses, daffodils, chrysanthemums, and some subtropical flowers are also grown in the garden. Everything is blooming beautifully in the spring, and arranged according to the theme set yearly. Keukenhof opened to the public once a year during the eight-week course, usually begins in late March to mid-May. The opening of this park is a highly anticipated moment by connoisseurs worldwide interest.

Madurodam

In Scheveningen, The Hague, there is a unique tourist attraction. Similar to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, but this one is a miniature city. Madurodam, his name.

Built in 1952, Madurodam is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale. Inside are typical Dutch buildings and landmarks found in all corners of the country windmill. Madurodam uniqueness comes with the mayor in the miniature city. Queen Beatrix at an early age was appointed as mayor of Madurodam in July 1952 and down from the job after she became queen. Since the election of the mayor of Madurodam is done every year of junior high school students around the Hague.

Madurodam consists of four zones, namely:
  • central zone containing miniature famous Dutch buildings such as castles, town halls, museums, cathedrals, colleges, canals, cheese factories, etc.
  • Zone entertainment venues Efteling and containing miniature zoo Blijdorp
  • agricultural zone which contains a miniature windmill, farm, ranch
  • industrial and port zone which contains a miniature highway complete with cars, railroads with trains and trams, station, sea port and air port complete with ships and aircraft, as well as the factory.

Van Gogh Museum

Among the many famous painters, Van Gogh is the name of one of the most often mentioned. The Dutch painter deserves two thumbs up as he lifts the works have spawned incredible.
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After Van Gogh's death in 1890, his entire painting fell into the hands of his brother, Theo. Theo died six months later and the rest of the painting fell into the hands of his wife, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger who then had to sell a number of Van Gogh paintings with the aim to spread the art work of her late husband. While some are kept as private collections and bequeathed to their children, Vincent Willem van Gogh in 1925. These personal collection which is now stored in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

Van Gogh Museum consists of two buildings:
  1. Rietveld building, four-story buildings that showcase the permanent collection
  2. Kurokawa building, three-story building as a place to hold temporary exhibitions
The two buildings are connected by an underground tunnel.

The Van Gogh Museum has a collection of works of the maestro in the highest number in the world, covering 200 paintings, 400 drawings and 700 letters. Until now, this museum is one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands.

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