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A Sexscraper? Here are Amsterdam’s plans for a new Red Light District

Amsterdam's iconic Red Light District is notorious for attracting millions of tourists to the capital's streets —...
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This Dutch city has been sinking for hundreds of years

The Netherlands is known as the country of cheese and bicycles, and for being the flat European...
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The Dutch built cities on sinking land: how will this fare with climate change?

The Netherlands literally means "low country" and for good reason too: only about 50% of the country...
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The Putten raid: when the Nazis captured nearly all the men in this Dutch village

On October 1, the small village of Putten in Gelderland remembers a painful day from its past....
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8 great windmills to visit in the Netherlands

Windmills are one of the first things you think of when you hear the words "Holland" or...
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Eat your cheese: How the Dutch became ridiculously tall

Yeah yeah, we know, Dutch people are tall. Every joke has been made about it. But why...
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The liberation of the Netherlands like you’ve never seen it before (coloured videos inside)

Each year, on May 5, the Dutch celebrate the day their country was liberated from Nazi occupation...
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Dutch architecture in South Africa you can still see today

It’s easy to spot Dutch architecture in the Cape of South Africa thanks to these two nations'...
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