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Dutch Venice or the Venice of the North

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If you are planning a trip to India, then you should definitely visit the modern Akshardham temple complex in Delhi, which is the largest in the country. Also, you will probably be curious to know that the largest temple outside India is the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir , which is locat in the northwest part of London.

The small village of Giethoorn is rightly call the. Its main feature is that there are no roads as we understand them – all traffic is carri out along numerous water channels that crisscross the entire picturesque small village.

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The village of Giethoorn gain particular Dutch Venice

Fame in 1958 after the popular film of the time by the Dutch director Bert Haanstra “Fanfare”. In fact, the village was found in 1230 by refugees who suffer from a flood in the southern part of the country.

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Having found a small settlement in this special database area, they began actively mining peat. As a result, narrow channels appear, which after some time were completely fill with underground water. Since then, the water channels have become the only roads in the village of Giethoorn, and all the residents here travel exclusively on light boats and boats.

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Another attractive feature

Giethoorn is its cute, neat houses. Near angola lists of them there is always a small lawn with small trees, well-trimm bushes and flowers. Most of the houses are locat on numerous islands, which are connect to each other by wooden bridges, of which there are about 50 in the village.

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Nowadays, the small Dutch village of the ibm dos version of adventure is one of the most famous and popular attractions in the Netherlands. Despite its worldwide fame, Giethoorn still remains a quiet little village with a population of only 2,320 people.

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