Zaanse Schans
Listed under Historic Towns and Villages in The Netherlands.
Zaanse Schans is something like an outdoor museum, with its windmills turning in rows and old orange roofed barns and buildings in between them. It's still a living ancient hamlet, albeit now a lot of the town's income comes from its attractive preservation in old fashioned state circa 16th - 17th Century. Not all of the buildings are original, some have been moved here to create a whole preserved town - even the residential properties - still in use - are period.
There's an indoor museum and a cheee making shop to complete the picture of the historic town.
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Emilie Stokes.
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