Kinderdijk Windmills
A group of 19 monumental windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder in South Holland. Most were built around 1740 to keep the low land drained, and they are the best known windmill landscape in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Where
- Kinderdijk, South Holland, Netherlands
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 51.8886, 4.6347
Get the Kinderdijk Windmills stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Kinderdijk Windmills. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your South Holland volume with your photos and a note.
Near Kinderdijk Windmills
Erasmus Bridge 10 km
A cable stayed and bascule bridge over the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam, completed in 1996. Its single tilted pylon has given it the nickname The Swan, and it links the city centre with the Kop van Zuid.
Cube Houses 10 km
A set of tilted cube-shaped homes by the architect Piet Blom, built in Rotterdam and Helmond. They follow the idea of living as an urban roof, giving dense housing while leaving space at street level. The Rotterdam group stands above the Blaak area.
Markthal 11 km
A horseshoe shaped building in Rotterdam with a food market under a huge arched hall. Queen Maxima opened it on 1 October 2014. Besides the market it holds 228 apartments and 4,600 square metres of shops and restaurants.
Kunsthal 11 km
An art space in Rotterdam that opened in 1992. It has no permanent collection and instead hosts changing exhibitions of art, design, photography and culture. It stands in the Museumpark beside the Natural History Museum.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 11 km
An art museum in Rotterdam's Museumpark, named for its two main donors. Its collection runs from the Middle Ages to the present, with works by Bosch, Rembrandt and Van Gogh and a large design collection.
Euromast 12 km
An observation tower in Rotterdam designed by Hugh Maaskant and built between 1958 and 1960 for the Floriade garden show. It is a concrete structure and has been a listed monument since 2010. Its viewing platform looks over the city and the port.
Van Nelle Factory 14 km
A former tea, coffee and tobacco factory on the Schie in Rotterdam, built between 1925 and 1931 to a design by Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. Its glass curtain walls make it a leading example of modernist and functionalist architecture, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
De Biesbosch National Park 17 km
One of the largest national parks in the Netherlands and one of the last extensive areas of freshwater tidal wetland in northwestern Europe. A network of rivers and creeks winds between islands of willow and reed.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in South Holland
Questions
Where is Kinderdijk Windmills?
Kinderdijk Windmills is in Kinderdijk, South Holland, Netherlands. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Erasmus Bridge (10 km), Cube Houses (10 km), Markthal (11 km).
How do I get the Kinderdijk Windmills stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Kinderdijk Windmills and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your South Holland volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Kinderdijk Windmills before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your South Holland volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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