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Switzerland suits an older traveler better than almost any mountain country, for one reason: the railways, cable cars and lake boats do the climbing. The trade offs are altitude, which affects everybody, historic paving, and the fact that a cheap shoulder-season trip is cheap because the mountain…
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch was inscribed in 2001 under criteria (vii)(viii)(ix) and extended east and west in 2007, taking it from 53,900 to 82,400 hectares. It holds the most glaciated part of the Alps and the largest glacier in Eurasia, and UNESCO inscribed it partly for what it records about…
The Old City of Berne was inscribed in 1983 under criterion (iii) alone, and covers 91.86 hectares inside a bend of the Aare. UNESCO's reason is not the individual buildings but the plan: a city founded in the twelfth century that developed over the centuries in line with an exceptionally coherent…
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces was inscribed in 2007 under criteria (iii)(iv)(v): 898 hectares with a 1,408 hectare buffer zone, running about 30 km along the north shore of Lake Geneva. UNESCO inscribed it as an outstanding example of centuries of interaction between people and their environment,…
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…
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 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 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 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 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.