In the Netherlands’ South Holland province, a network of meticulously preserved 18th-century windmills stand guard over the pastoral plains of Kinderdijk. The 19 windmills that make up the site, amid ...

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. Sometime in the 1950s, the millers ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of handling water is admirably demonstrated by the installations in the Kinderdijk-Elshout area. Construction of ...

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