tourist attractions in Netherlands

Here's a list of 10 sites in the Netherlands are popular:

1. The canals of Amsterdam

Canals in Amsterdam

Amsterdam began to build the famous canals in the 17th century during the golden age of the Netherlands. The three main canals, Herengracht, Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht form a concentric belt around the city, known as the Grachtengordel. There are currently more than 100 km (60 miles) long from these canals, and also there are 1,500 bridges. Along with the main channel, there are also about 1,550 monumental buildings. Tourist attractions in the Netherlands is a place most visited by foreign tourists.

2. Frisian Islands

Frisian Islands in the Western

West Frisian Islands or Waddeneilanden in Dutch is a chain of islands in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands. The islands separating the North Sea from the shallow Wadden Sea, with the tidal mud. Tourist attractions in the Netherlands you can visit with the help of supervision of a licensed guide. Some of the islands in this place can be reached by walking on mud during low tide. In these islands, cycling is the most profitable way to transport in these islands.

3. Keukenhof Flower Garden

Keukenhof flower gardens are very beautiful

Keukenhof Gardens is the world's largest flower garden, and truly become the promotion of flower industry in the Netherlands. Approximately seven million flower seedlings planted annually in the park, and not just tulips, but also hyacinths, daffodils and other spring flowers. These gardens are open from the last week of March until mid-May. Keukenhof is one of the tourist attractions in the Netherlands which has always been a tourist favorite.

4. The village of Kinderdijk

Windmills in the village of Kinderdijk

More than 1,000 old windmill which still exist in the Netherlands to date. The largest concentration of Dutch windmills can be found near the village of Kinderdijk ("embankment Children"). To drain excess water from the polder, which lies below sea level. 19 windmills was built around 1740. This windmill has been preserved until now and now a tourist spot in the Netherlands are quite popular.

5. City of Maastricht

Vrijthof in Maastricht city church

Vrijthof is the most famous city square in Maastricht, a city in the most southern part of the Netherlands. Vrijthof is a great feature and the Cathedral Church of Saint Servatius Saint Jan. Vrijthof regularly hosts major festivals throughout the year, including autumn and winter, and become tourist attractions in the Netherlands which is a favorite destination of tourists.

6. Channel Leiden

Canal Leiden

Leiden is known for having the oldest university in the Netherlands. Leiden is the birthplace of Rembrandt and has a beautiful canals. Two branches of the Old Rhine river into the canal Leiden in the east and unite in the city center which also contains some small canal. The center of the old canal Leiden is one of the greatest 17th century in the town center in the Netherlands, and only the second of Amsterdam, so that these places become tourist attractions in the Netherlands besides Amsterdam most tourists visit.

7. Delft City Hall

Delft City Hall

City Hall in Delft is a Renaissance-style building on the Markt square opposite the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church). Initially City Hall designed by Dutch architect Hendrick de Keyser, but where it has greatly changed over the centuries and was restored in the 20th century with the appearance Renaisansnya, and now become one of the tourist attractions in the Netherlands.

8. Hoga Veluwe National Park

Autumn in Hoga Veluwe National Park

Hoge Veluwe National Park is one of the largest continuous nature reserve in the Netherlands, which consists of grasslands, dunes and forests. Kröller-Müller Museum has a large collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh depicting about this park. Here, bikes available for free to visitors Hoge Veluwe, because many areas in this place that is not accessible by car. So the tourist attractions in the Netherlands is a favorite destination of tourists who love the beauty of nature.

9. Museum Rijksmuseum

Museum Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is the largest and most prestigious museum for art and history in the Netherlands. The museum has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age including works by Vermeer and Rembrandt. Until 2013, this museum really has been renovated, but the great works of this museum still remains, and this museum has become a tourist spot in the Netherlands are the most frequent travelers in kujungi by art lovers.

10. Delta Project

Delta Dam Project

Project Delta or Delta Works is a series of constructions built between 1950 and 1997 in the provinces of Zeeland and South Holland to protect the Netherlands comprehensive ocean. The works of the Delta Project consists of a dam, sluice gates, locks, dikes, and storm surge inhibitors. This place has been declared as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and become tourist attractions in the Netherlands is very popular.