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In the 2005 PlayStation 2 video game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Kinderdijk is the third playable location. Several missions include utilizing the iconic windmills to aid the main character, Sly, in a biplane dogfight over the village. Kinderdijk is a stage in the fighting game Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001. The players fight in ...
The 1/25 scale miniature windmills of Kinderdijk (left) and Zaanse Schans B (right) in Tobu World Square, Japan. The mills are listed as national monuments and the entire area is a protected village view since 1993.
It has gained a measure of fame as it is the longest place name found in any English-speaking country, and possibly the longest place name in the world, according to World Atlas. [2] The name of the hill (with 85 characters) has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name. Other versions of the name, including longer ...
Several Dutch villages are known for their concentration of windmills, including Kinderdijk, Zaanse Schans, and Schiedam, home to the tallest windmill in the world. Tjaskers, a kind of windmill native to Friesland, were also used for water management. This list of windmills in the Netherlands is grouped by province. Types of Dutch windmills ...
Name of mill and coordinates Type Built Notes Photograph Bibbona: Tower: Laguna di Orbetello: Molino Spagnolo: Tower: Margherita di Savoia: Titt wind engine: Marsala (two mills) Tower: Pumping mills for salt works Mozia: Tower: Former pumping mill for salt works, now a salt museum [3] Trapani: Tower: Valle Benedetta
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The village of Kinderdijk, well known for its windmills, is located at the northwest corner of the Alblasserwaard, where the Noord and the Lek join. Most of the Alblasserwaard is rural, but, partially under the influence of the cities of Rotterdam and Dordrecht on the borders of the area, the south and west are urbanised.
Keukenhof, the park as it is now known, was established in 1949 by a consortium of bulb growers and flower exporters to showcase their products and support the export industry. The garden opened to the public in 1950 and received 200,000 visitors in its first year. [13] It operates under a charitable foundation of Count Carel De Gaaf van Lynden.