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Amsterdam with its typical grid of canals.
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The Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh museum are both located at the beautiful Museumplein.
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The center of Amsterdam.
Left the Central Station, right the Dam Square.
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The palace at the Dam Square.
Build on 13.659 piles in 1648 on the place where Amsterdam is founded in the 13th century.
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The Amsterdam Arena is the biggest sports stadion of the Netherlands, with more than 50.000 seats. Building started in 1993. Ajax scored its first goal in this stadion on August 21, 1996.
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The name Schiphol was already used in the 15th century, but obviously the name was not a synonym for Amsterdam Airport in those days. In 1916 an airport was build at the site of what used to be the swamp Schiphol.
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The river Amstel, heading for Amsterdam.
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New energy from new land: the Flevopolder, reclaimed from the sea in 1968.
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Lage Vuursche is very small town in the forest between Amsterdam and Utrecht.
Although the village consists only of a few dozen of houses, it has a millennia old history: the surrounding forest is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds.
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The castle Drakensteyn, situated in Lage Vuursche, is owned by queen Beatrix.
She lived here with here family until 1980.
In that year she became queen of The Netherlands and moved to a palace in The Hague.
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Utrecht is founded by the Romans in the year 48 as Ultrajectum.
The church-tower is highest in The Netherlands: 112 meters.
It is build between 1321 and 1382.
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Utrecht Central Station, the main railway hub of the Netherlands.
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