The Hague
The Hague, city of political, art, culture and nice events. In The Hague you can find everything: theatre, culture, art and much more, but do not forget to visit the Ridderzaal. That is the room where once year the queen opens the parlement and she reads out the opening speech. This historical spot is where the city of The Hague started.

Other interesting places are De Gevangenpoort (House of prisoners). In earlier days it was the entrence to the palace. It’s now a monument and museum, where the prison warrants and the tools for torturing can be seen.
In front of The Gevangenpoort stands the statue of Johan the Witt, former very important statesman who is assassinated here in the 17th century, together with his brother Cornelis.

The Peace Palace
In 1899 in The Hague took place the The Hague Peace Conference, which led to the establishment of the permanent Court of Arbitration that it was established in The Hague. The American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie donated an amount of $ 1,500,000 for the construction of The Peace Palace (built between 1907 and 1913), in which this court would be established. Later also the International Court of Justice was established in this palace.

Rotterdam
People call the port of Rotterdam also: Port or Europe.
Rotterdam is important for the Netherlands because:
It is the trade city of the Netherlands You can shop there well.
You can go out there well.

The Euromast
The Euromast (Eurotower) is a tower in Rotterdam, which has been put down for the Floriade( that’s a parade) in 1960, by architects H.A. Maaskant and J.P. van Eesteren in the park, near the entrance of the Maastunnel.
The 107 meters long tower was rising above the city. But the city became larger and the buildings became higher. So after some years you could see the buildings became higher than the Euromast.

A view over the City: Rotterdam from the Euromast 

Port of Rotterdam
Every year some 30,000 sea-going ships and 110,000 barges call at the port of Rotterdam.
With its ultra-modern Vessel Traffic System (VTS), it can track ships on the radar screen up to 60 kilometres off the coast and 40 kilometres inland.
The VTS has 3 manned traffic centres, 2 traffic stations and 29 unmanned radar stations at strategic locations in the port.
The traffic centre in the Botlek area is the busiest traffic centre in the port.
This manned traffic centre is situated on the crossroads of two main waterways, the "Nieuwe Maas" and "Oude Maas".
Assisted by skilled traffic operators ships safely pass these waterways

Here you can see from out of space the port of Rotterdam

Feyenoord
This is the Feyenoord stadium


Feyenoord is the greatfootball club in Rotterdam. It was started in 1908, as an amateur club, but in 1912 in became member ofDutch Football Federation. 
In 1917 Feyenoord promoted already to the first class.  Feyenoord won in 1924 the country title and did this once again over in 1928.  After that knew Feyenoord a very successful period.  In 1937, they got an entire new stadium.  The stadium had been built to the idea of the stadium of the English team of Arsenal.
In history Feyenoord won many Dutch titles, but also the European Champions League and the UEFA cup.

Dunes and dikes


If you go to the beach at the Dutch coast you sometimes must make a considerable climb. A climb over two or three ranges of sandy hills: THE DUNES! The dunes are a part of the coast. The dunes protect the country from the sea.


The North Sea.
The dunes protect our country from the sea. Approximately half of our country lies lower than sea level. If there were no dunes, the sea water would submerge a large part of our country. At some places the coast lies no dunes. There dikes were built. Many dunes are not strong enough stop the sea at a real large storm. For this reason one has built so called  wave breakers. If it storms these wave breakers break the power of the waves. In this way the dunes do not wash away. The dunes have not been made by people. They are created by nature. Dunes are hills which have been piled up by wind. But the same wind can blow away the dunes also. For this reason on the dunes helmet grass, shrubs and trees grow. These plants and trees hold the sand with their roots. We are not allowed to walk in those areas.

Madurodam
Madurodam is a Dutch miniature city well-known in The Hague
Everything has been reconstructed exactly, exact 25 time smaller than in reality.
Here you can walk to Schiphol Airport, to the Utrecht Tower, from the Houses of Parliament  to the Rotterdam Euromast and more on a scale of 1 on 25.

This attraction park attracts thousands of visitors annually.
It has been named after George Maduro, student from Curaçao who distinguished himself during the May days of 1940 as an officer in the battle for the residence, but he died in 1945, in Dachau.
The miniature city was opened on 2 July 1952. Madurodam covers 1.77 square kilometre and gives a picture of a Dutch city by means of three-dimensional scale model of buildings from all parts of the Netherlands. A hospital and a cemetery are lacking. Some three dimensional move scale models after put of a coin.
Madurodam a city is called, but it contents much more. It exists from a historical 

The top ten to of the Dutch tourisme:
1.  Northern Zoo in Emmen, Drenthe
This is a nice zoo, where many animals are for the whole family.  Zoo Emmen sparkles the whole year through by all kind of the activities.  Each day there are on fixed moments interesting and amusing presentations by the caretakers.  Sometimes the animals are fed extra and the public may help then. 
2.  The Efteling in Kaatsheuvel, North-Brabant: 
The Efteling is an entertainment park, located in Kaatsheuvel, in North Brabant.  It is the largest in terms or area and popular theme park in the Benelux and one of the largest theme parks in Europe. 
3.  The beach, all coastal provinces: 
The West coast is almost one large sandy beach, an average of 100 metres wide.  Area enough to relax.  Sailing, surfing, swimming.  Ans sun bathing.
4.  Walibi World in Biddinghuizen, Flevoland: 
Walibi World is a theme park located in Biddinghuizen  in the Dutch province or Flevoland. Walibi World is for the whole family.
5.  Beekse Bergen safari in Hilvarenbeek, North-Brabant
Beekse Bergen is between Tilburg and Hilvarenbeek in southern Netherlands, province or North Brabant.  It is the largest Wildlife Zoo in the Benelux countries and has about 1500 animals (more than 150 species), ranging from small mammals to large birds. 
They are divided by continent:  Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe: By wandering in the zoo a world in a day.  There are several ways to go through the park: walking, by car safari,, bus safari and boot safari. 
6.  Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, South Holland
The Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam is one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands.  Do you want visit the Zoo after closing time?  Book then a Blijdorp by Night arrangement: delicious food and an adventurous guided tour in the twilight dark through Blijdorp. 
7.  Duinrell in Wassenaar, South Holland
Duinrell is a resort located in Wassenaar, in the province or South-Holland.  There are a holiday village and a campsite, but Duinrell is especially known for its entertainment park with swimming pool (the Tikibad).  The Duinrell mascot is Rick the Frog who often can be seen in the advertisements or Duinrell. 
8.  Oosterschelde dam, Zeeland
The province of Zeeland has suffered many times from flooding by the sea. The Delta Works consits of many dams and dikes to prevent future floodings. One of the biggest constructions is the Oosterschelde dam that was finished in 1975. It has moveble slides that can be lowered when a storm is coming. This solution secures the country  against floods and but also saves the environment
9.  The Museum Koog, Texel
In Ecomare you can find out everything about nature on the island, about the Waddensea and the influence or human beings in these areas.  The centre includes a large dune park, seals and bird relief, a museum with extensive exhibits (including the water hall with great sea aquaria), a visitor centre, a centre for nature and environmental education and information center. 
10.  The Anne Frank house:
It’s a house from Anna Frank she was a jewish girl, who lived during The Second World War.
It’s now a museum because she was very famous, from her diary and she told about the war.
Her room was in the backhouse where she lived with her family.
The room was hidden behind a large book case.
You can see everything in the house.
The museum is in Amsterdam.