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Kinderdijk Windmills, Netherlands

travel videos & photos at: https://townsofeurope.com/ with text, maps & links. When you see windmills and canals, you can guess that you are in the Netherlands, especially here at Kinderdijk, which has 19 old windmills, the largest collection in the country. 00:00 intro 00:52 aerial views 01:52 walk or boat 02:28 maps 02:50 free admission 03:01 students 03:31 garden 04:30 visit inside windmill Blokweer 08:13 drainage of the polder 09:08 farmland scenes 09:43 visit inside windmill Nederwaard 13:12 boat ride 13:35 boat guide 14:18 windmill functions 15:28 lessons from windmills 15:39 1200 windmills now, 10,000 earlier 15:55 legend of baby rescued by cat 16:19 walk to visitor center 17:03 official website www.kinderdijk.nl 17:16 volunteers 17:54 boat route from Rotterdam 19:25 continue to Dordrecht 21:12 more aerial views of Kinderdijk windmills 22:50 end credit Two of these windmills are open to the public, where you can go inside to look around. Then you'll discover this was a house with several rooms inside the windmill. People used to live in there, the millers. In fact, some of these windmills there are still people living in them. And when you go inside, you can speak to the miller, who will tell you all about how these mills operate.