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Embraer ERJ190 at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

North Holland

North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland, Dutch: [ˌnoːrt ˈɦɔlɑnt]) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a population of 2,877,909 and a total area of , of which is water. From the 9th to the 16th century, the area was an integral part of the County of Holland. During this period West Friesland was incorporated. In the 17th and 18th cen…

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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Amsterdam Airport Schiph…
Rozenburg
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol , known informally as Schiphol Airport (Dutch: Luchthaven Schiphol, Dutch: [ˌlʏxtɦaːvə(n) ˈsxɪp(ɦ)ɔl; sxɪpˈɦɔl]), is the main international airport of the Netherlands. It is located southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province of North Holland. It is the world's third busiest airport by international passenger traffic in 2021. With almost 72 million passengers in 2019, it is the third-busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger vol…
wikipedia/Amsterdam_Airport_Schiphol
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Vondelpark
Vondelpark
Amsterdam
The Vondelpark (Dutch: [ˈvɔndəlˌpɑr(ə)k]) is a public urban park of 47 hectares (120 acres) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is part of the borough of Amsterdam-Zuid and situated west from the Leidseplein and the Museumplein. The park was opened in 1865 and originally named Nieuwe Park (English: New Park), but later renamed Vondelpark, after the 17th-century playwright and poet Joost van den Vondel. The park has around 10 million visitors annually. Within the park is an open-air theatre, a playgrou…
wikipedia/Vondelpark
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Afsluitdijk
Afsluitdijk
Den Oever
The Afsluitdijk (Dutch: [ˈɑfslœydɛik]; ; ; English: "Closure Dyke") is a major dam and causeway in the Netherlands. It was constructed between 1927 and 1932 and runs from Den Oever in North Holland province to the village of Zurich in Friesland province, over a length of and a width of , at an initial height above Amsterdam Ordnance Datum of between along the section at Friesland, and where it crosses the deep channel of the Vlieter. The height at the greater sea depths west of Friesland was …
wikipedia/Afsluitdijk
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Ius Winterwandeling
Ius Winterwandeling
Zuid-Kennemerland National Park (Dutch: Nationaal Park Zuid-Kennemerland) is a conservation area on the west coast of the province of North Holland. It was established in 1995. History Dutch conservationist Jac. P. Thijsse first wrote about a possible national park between Bloemendaal and the North Sea Canal in 1944. As a result, the national park De Kennemerduinen was established in 1950. The Zuid-Kennemerland National Park was established in 1995. It comprised De Kennemerduinen, several nature…
wikipedia/Zuid-Kennemerland_National_Park
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Muiderslot
Muiderslot
Muiden
Muiden Castle (Dutch: Muiderslot, Dutch: [ˌmœydərˈslɔt]) is a castle in the Netherlands, located at the mouth of the Vecht river, some 15 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, in Muiden, where it flows into what used to be the Zuiderzee. It is one of the better known castles in the Netherlands and featured in many television shows set in the Middle Ages. History Floris V The history of Muiden Castle begins with Count Floris V who built a stone castle at the mouth of the river in 1280, when he gaine…
wikipedia/Muiden_Castle
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Dam Square
Dam Square
Amsterdam
Dam Square or the Dam (Dutch: [dɑm]) is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the best-known and most important locations in the city and the country. Location and description Dam Square lies in the historical center of Amsterdam, approximately south of the main transportation hub, Centraal Station, at the original location of the dam in the river Amstel. It is roughly rectangular in shape, stretching about from wes…
wikipedia/Dam_Square
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Amstel
Amstel
Amsterdam
The Amstel (Dutch: [ˈɑmstəl]) is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. It flows from the Aarkanaal and Drecht in Nieuwveen northwards, passing Uithoorn, Amstelveen, and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, to the IJ in Amsterdam. Annually, the river is the location of the Liberation Day concert, Head of the River Amstel rowing match, and the Amsterdam Gay Pride boat parade. Etymology The name and the older form Aemstel are derived from Amestelle, which is a compound of the words or …
wikipedia/Amstel
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Van Gogh Museum
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam
The Van Gogh Museum (Dutch: [vɑŋˈɣɔx mʏˌzeːjʏm]) is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on 2 June 1973, and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa. The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors and was…
wikipedia/Van_Gogh_Museum
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The IJsselmeer (Dutch: [ɛisəlˈmeːr]; Western: Iselmar, ), also known as Lake IJssel in English, is a closed off inland bay in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland. It covers an area of with an average depth of . The river IJssel flows into the IJsselmeer. History Two thousand years ago Pomponius Mela, a Roman geographer, mentioned a complex of lakes at the current location of the IJsselmeer. He called it Lacus Flevo. Over the centuries, the l…
wikipedia/IJsselmeer
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Anne Frank House
Anne Frank House
Amsterdam
The Anne Frank House (Dutch: Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands. During World War II, Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms, in the rear building, of the 17th-century canal house, later known as the Secret Annex (Dutch: Achterhuis). She did not su…
wikipedia/Anne_Frank_House
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Westerkerk
Westerkerk
Amsterdam
The Westerkerk (Dutch: [ʋɛstərkɛr(ə)k]; English: Western Church) is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant Calvinism in central Amsterdam, Netherlands. It lies in the most western part of the Grachtengordel neighborhood (Centrum borough), next to the Jordaan, between the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht. History The Westerkerk was built between 1620 and 1631 in Renaissance style according to designs by architect Hendrick de Keyser. He is buried in the church he designed earlier: the 'Zuiderker…
wikipedia/Westerkerk
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Teylers Museum
Teylers Museum
Haarlem
Teylers Museum (Dutch: [ˈtɛilərs myˈzeːjʏm]) is an art, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Established in 1778, Teylers Museum was founded as a centre for contemporary art and science. The historic centre of the museum is the neoclassical Oval Room (1784), which was built behind the house of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778), the so-called ''Fundatiehuis'' (Foundation House). Pieter Teyler was a wealthy cloth merchant and banker of Scottish descent, who bequeathed…
wikipedia/Teylers_Museum
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Grote Kerk, Haarlem
Grote Kerk, Haarlem
Haarlem
The Grote Kerk or St.-Bavokerk is a Reformed Protestant church and former Catholic cathedral located on the central market square (Grote Markt) in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Another Haarlem church called the Cathedral of Saint Bavo now serves as the main cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam. History This church is an important landmark for the city of Haarlem and has dominated the city skyline for centuries. It is built in the Gothic style of architecture, and it became …
wikipedia/Grote_Kerk,_Haarlem
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Markermeer
Markermeer
Wijdenes
The Markermeer (Dutch: [ˌmɑrkərˈmeːr]) is a lake in the central Netherlands in between North Holland, Flevoland, and its smaller and larger neighbors, the IJmeer and IJsselmeer. A shallow lake at 3 to 5 m in depth, matching the reclaimed land to its west, north-west and east it is named after the small former island, now peninsula, of Marken on its west shore. The Markermeer was not originally intended to remain a lake. It was formerly part of the Zuiderzee, a saltwater inlet of the North Sea, …
wikipedia/Markermeer
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zaal1-3
zaal1-3
The Gooimeer (Gooi Lake) is a bordering lake in the Netherlands between the southeastern part of North Holland (the Gooi) and Flevoland. There is a railroad bridge over the narrow west side, between Weesp and Almere Poort, with a parallel highway bridge, the Hollandse Brug. The narrow eastern border of the lake is crossed by two parallel highway bridges. On the south bank of Gooimeer, which used to be the IJsselmeer, before the creation of the new polder Flevoland, the old cities of Naarden and …
wikipedia/Gooimeer
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Spaarne
Spaarne
Spaarnwoude
The Spaarne is a river in North Holland, Netherlands. This partially canalized river connects the Ringvaart to a side branch of the North Sea Canal. It runs through Haarlem, Heemstede, and Spaarndam. The historic canals of Haarlem's moats are connected to the Spaarne. A lock at Spaarndam separates it from the North Sea Canal. According to Sterck-Proot, a historian, the name Spaarne probably comes from Spier, which means reed in old Dutch. History The river formerly flowed from the Haarlemmermeer…
wikipedia/Spaarne
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Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen
Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen
Amsterdam
Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis was situated from its opening 1991 till the end of 2015 in a canal-side mansion, the Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This patrician mansion, close to the Rembrandtplein, was built for Albert Geelvinck (1647-1693) and Sara Hinlopen (1660-1749), then in an attractive and new laid-out section of the city towards the Amstel. In the year 1687 the couple moved into this double wide house, with storage rooms in the cellar, under the attic and in th…
wikipedia/Museum_Geelvinck-Hinlopen
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Artis
Artis
Amsterdam
Artis may refer to: People Surname • Dominic Artis (born 1993), American basketball player • Edmund Tyrell Artis (1789–1847), English archaeologist, palaebotanist, and geologist • Jamareo Artis (born 1989), American bass guitarist • Jamel Artis (born 1993), American basketball player • Orsten Artis (1943–2017), American basketball player • Rebecca Artis (born 1988), Australian professional golfer • William Artis (1914–1977), American sculptor Given name • Artis Ābols (born 1973), Latvian ice hoc…
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Lighthouse Groote Kaap
Lighthouse Groote Kaap
Lange Jaap ("Tall Jacob"), also known as Kijkduin Light or Den Helder Light, is an active lighthouse near Fort Kijkduin in Huisduinen, Netherlands. At a height of it is one of the tallest "traditional lighthouses" in the world. For almost a century, from 1878 to 1974, it was the tallest lighthouse in the Netherlands, until the construction of the Maasvlakte Light. According to The Lighthouse Directory it is the tallest non-skeletal cast-iron lighthouse in the world. The site used to be open and…
wikipedia/Lange_Jaap
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Rembrandt House Museum
Rembrandt House Museum
Amsterdam
The Rembrandt House Museum (Dutch: Museum Het Rembrandthuis) is a museum located in a former house in the Jodenbreestraat, in the center of Amsterdam. Between 1639 and 1658, the house was occupied by the well-known Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, who also had his studio and art dealership there. The house was built around 1606 and was renovated around 1627, probably under the supervision of Jacob van Campen. It was then given an extra floor and a new facade with a triangular pediment. Rembrand…
wikipedia/Rembrandt_House_Museum
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National Monument
National Monument
Amsterdam
The National Monument on Dam Square (Dutch: Nationaal Monument op de Dam) is a 1956 cenotaph in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A national Remembrance of the Dead ceremony is held at the monument every year on 4 May to commemorate the casualties of World War II and subsequent armed conflicts. History Dam Square is the historic centre of the Dutch national capital of Amsterdam. Until 1914 another national monument stood on the Dam, De Eendracht or popularly Naatje van de Dam, commemorating the Ten Days' …
wikipedia/National_Monument_(Amsterdam)
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2004-10-01 18-32-45_0147
2004-10-01 18-32-45_0147
Circuit Zandvoort (Dutch: [sɪrˈkʋi ˈzɑntˌfoːrt]), known for sponsorship reasons as CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, and previously known as Circuit Park Zandvoort until 2017, is a motorsport race track located in the dunes north of Zandvoort, the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line. It returned to the Formula One calendar in 2021 as the location of the revived Dutch Grand Prix. History 1930s to mid 1980s There were plans for races at Zandvoort before World War II: the first street race was held…
wikipedia/Circuit_Zandvoort
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Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium
Sloten
The Olympic Stadium (Dutch: Olympisch Stadion, Dutch: [oːˈlɪmpiˌstaːdijɔn]) is a sporting venue which was used as the main stadium for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The venue is currently used mostly for athletics, other sports events and music concerts. When completed, the stadium had a capacity of 31,600. Following the completion of the rival De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam in 1937, the Amsterdam authorities increased the capacity of the Olympic Stadium to 64,000 by adding a second ring …
wikipedia/Olympic_Stadium_(Amsterdam)
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