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If you wished to survey the whole of the Netherlands, to have a bird’s eye view of the entire country, you would in these days look down from the observer’s seat of a flying machine, or from the gondola of an airship, flying over the country, and you would be able in this way to…
Dutch Railways are as trouble-free and efficient as you’re likely to find anywhere in Europe. There are frequent intercity services between all parts of Holland, at least once an hour. The short distances involved mean you can see most of Holland while based at one city. Be careful not to end up on the ‘stop-treins’…
Tourism has been an important business for the Netherlands since the 1960s. The coast, the flowers, the cities and the cultural appeals make the country an attractive destination all year around. One problem is the congestion in summer: April and May are important months for the flower tourists, and July and August are busy because…
Official name: Dutch Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (Kingdom of the Netherlands) Entry requirements: Passport Population: 14,000,000 + Capital: Amsterdam (population: (2000e) 746 000), though The Hague is the political capital. Currency: 1 euro = 100 cents Political system: Constitutional Monarchy Religions: Protestant (30%) and Roman Catholic (38%) Date of independence: 1830 Language: Dutch (English widely spoken…
It would be altogether too facile to regard the various anti-Rationalist tendencies of 1914-23 as a revolt against the mainstream of development, or as a serious alternative ‘school’ to the emergent International Style. Though Twentieth-century architecture was undoubtedly impoverished formally by the demise of this manner of design, the resolute paring-down to one particular set…
If the characteristics of a people are mirrored in one section of their architecture more than another, it is surely in the homes they build. This is particularly so in Holland, where the old domestic buildings possess all those solid and attractive qualities we associate with the people of this pleasant country. It cannot be…
No better example could be found of a life that became one long aspiration towards the light, a reaching for the stars, than Van Gogh’s. In everything he did, he strove to transcend human realities, to idealize man and hymn his greatness. Take, for instance, his evangelical mission among the miners of the Borinage: its…