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Located in the Netherlands, Amsterdam's Canal Ring became a UNESCO site in 2010. With 165 canals, Amsterdam is the city with the most canals in the world. When Amsterdam was built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, the canals drained swampland to allow for the development of the new port city.
Amsterdam’s city center is ringed by canals, reflecting its early history as a seagoing country. The Prinsengracht canals serve as one of the primary canal rings around Old Town Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The spire of the Westerkerk was completed in 1638 and is is the highest church tower in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, at 85 m (279 ft).
The floating Tulip Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The Astoria building in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, built in 1904-05, is a reserved style of Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) that came to be known as "New Art" (Nieuwe Kunst). Typical Art Nouveau engravings appear in the grey stone around the doorway.
View along Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, a street (formerly a canal) in the heart of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
A series of bridges spanning an Amsterdam canal in the Netherlands.
Zuiderkirk is a 17th-century church located in the heart of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Molen van Sloten (the Sloten Windmill), on the outskirts of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, is a still-functioning polder-draining mill. Dating from 1847, the mill can pump 60,000 liters of water per minute from the polder.
The windmills at Kinderdijk, Netherlands, were built in 1738 and 1740 as a technological innovation to bridge water-level differences in adjacent rivers. The windmills, sluices, and dykes of the Netherlands are among the world’s earliest advances in water management.
Tulip fields brighten an already sunny day. The tulip arrived from the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century and is today the symbol of the Netherlands.
A view of Haarlem City Hall. Haarlem, located about 15 km (9 mi) west of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, dates to the 1200s and was home to several famous Dutch artists.
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