Articles tagged with "Netherlands"
The Netherlands has a mild maritime climate, no mountains to break the wind and rain that arrives off the North Sea in every month of the year. What you plan for is not temperature but changeability and exposure. We publish no temperature figures, because nothing we read for this guide states one.
The Netherlands follows Schengen area rules, so the entry question is almost never about the Netherlands. Your passport has to pass two separate tests, your ninety days are counted across the whole Schengen area rather than country by country, and the Entry/Exit System is being rolled out at the…
The Netherlands is small, flat and superbly connected, so the season decides the experience rather than the itinerary. Late spring and early autumn are the sweet spots. The bulb fields are the one thing worth building a trip around and the one thing that cannot be booked to a date, because they…
The Wadden Sea was inscribed in 2009 under criteria (viii)(ix)(x). It is a transnational serial property of 1,143,403 ha covering the Dutch conservation area, the German national parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and most of the Danish maritime conservation area. It is also the only…
The Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout was inscribed in 1997 under criteria (i)(ii)(iv) and covers 322 ha in the municipalities of Alblasserdam and Nieuw-Lekkerland. UNESCO inscribed it for one reason, stated plainly in its own record: the outstanding contribution made by the people of the…
The Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht was inscribed in 2010 under criteria (i)(ii)(iv). It is 198.2 ha with a 481.7 ha buffer zone, and it is a deliberate piece of city planning rather than a picturesque accident: a new port city, built on drained swampland in…