Zaanse Schans is one of the Netherlands' best-known heritage landscapes, preserving traditional windmills, wooden houses and historic workshops.
Zaanse Schans is one of the Netherlands' best-known heritage landscapes, preserving traditional windmills, wooden houses and historic workshops. Created as an open-air museum village, it showcases the industrial history of the Zaan region, where wind power drove industries such as timber processing, oil production and manufacturing. Visitors can enter working windmills, explore craft workshops and walk beside historic waterways.
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