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One of the windmills of Kinderdijk can be visited and inspected up close

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Kinderdijk is probably the most typical sight of The Netherlands. It is a collection of windmills, in the middle of an area with canals and green meadows with grazing cows.
Because a windmill has limited power and can only lift water for less than a metre and a half, windmills and small, special canals often had to be built at various levels to be able to pump water up over more than the maximum amount of metres feasible for one mill. This can be seen perfectly at the Kinderdijk area and it is the explanation of the large amount of windmills in this area. It also gives an idea how Holland must have looked like several centuries ago when there were over 10,000 windmills in the country!
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