If you want to experience the Dutch life, Zaanse Schans is the place to go. The village is home to some of the best-preserved windmills, wooden houses, and workshops from the 18th century. You can ...

Banks seem to pop out of the ground, flourish, merge and change their names almost too quickly to keep track of.

Windmills also sawed wood used in sail ships that plied the world’s oceans and ground spices they carried from Dutch colonies ... to focus on things close to home, Bakker said.

THE NETHERLANDS — The Netherlands is not the home of Dutch masters Van Gogh ... from its Unesco World Heritage-site Kinderdijk windmills that have been habitable and operational since the ...