The windmills of the Zaanse Schans
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A row of working windmills and green wooden houses along the Zaan. The area is free to visit and you pay to go inside a mill: De Kat, Het Jonge Schaap and De Huisman are open daily.
The classics in Zaandam
5 places that make the city
The places that make Zaandam: The windmills of the Zaanse Schans, Inntel Hotels Amsterdam-Zaandam, Czaar Peterhuisje and more, with what is on there next.
Inntel Hotels Amsterdam-Zaandam
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A hotel in Zaandam whose facade is built from nearly seventy small Zaan houses stacked on top of each other, in four shades of green. The hotel has its own bar and restaurant, Puur Saen.
Czaar Peterhuisje
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The small wooden house in the centre of Zaandam where Tsar Peter the Great stayed in 1697, now standing inside a stone shell. It belongs to the Zaans Museum and is open Tuesday to Sunday.
Zaans Museum
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The museum of the Zaan region's history, on the Zaanse Schans, with a café that looks out over the windmills. Zaandijk-Zaanse Schans station is a short walk away.
Windmill Museum
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An interactive museum at the Zaanse Schans about the role windmills played in the Dutch economy, from trade and wealth to hard labour and poverty. A dry place to spend an hour between two mills.
When it rains
When it rains
- Czaar Peterhuisje
- Zaans Museum
- Windmill Museum