Unusual location of the Month: Mini Holland

Unusual location of the Month: Mini Holland -

As if Holland was not small enough to travel, if you really are pressed for time, you can visit the country at all visit one day of Madurodam. Madurodam is a miniature "town" is located just outside of The Hague, Netherlands.

Madurodam is a scale model of the country, and make all the attractions and geographical characteristics, the Netherlands famous. You can download the canals of Amsterdam, the Red Light District, Port of Rotterdam, Maastricht, Utrecht to see the dikes, made the Netherlands famous palaces, government buildings and windmills. Madurodam also has an airport, beaches, small cars, tin man and trains through them. In fact, it is pretty much a scale version (built on a 1:25 scale) of anything of importance or showing the everyday life of the country.

There is even a mayor. In 1952, the teenage princess Beatrix was appointed mayor of Madurodam. Today the mayor is elected by a youth council that. Of 25 students from schools in the region

This major Dutch tourist attraction (there are millions of visitors each year sees) first built in 1952, was named after George Maduro, a Jewish law student, who fought as a member of the Dutch resistance and died in Dachau concentration camp in 1945. His parents donated the money to start the Madurodam project, and since then it has just grown. to build

Thirty-five people and keep the city. Every year one or two new buildings are added to obtain earlier taken away while.

I visited Madurodam with Guido of Happy Hotelier. I had heard about the city on a previous trip to the Netherlands, and Guido, who lives in The Hague agreed to indulge my inner child and take me. (Knowing someone with a car is wonderful.) Once there, I was expecting this amazing Legoland version of the country and, although I have not found, I thought, the "city" was still pretty interesting to wander. The details of the buildings is excellent, and they really put a lot of work in the smallest details. At night, 50,000 miniature bulbs light the city on.

If you take the photos at right angles, the building can fill enough the real thing as seen around the frame, and you can pretend that you actually visited the place. Mostly, I liked the planes "take off" from Schiphol Airport observed, albeit within the facility is somewhat dated from the 70s. I wanted to run only on the asphalt and the planes as an eight year old boy.

play Madurodam is open all year. It is open 9:00 to 21:00; Tickets cost 12.50 € for adults; Children 9 € adults and 65 free at the age of 11.50 €. You can take by car or by tram from The Hague Central Station here. There is tram 9 or bus 22 towards Scheveningen.

I would not half-day trip from Amsterdam make to view this page. It was interesting, but to eat a whole day for it? I'm not sure that it was so interesting. But if you're looking for something a little off-beat in a country where you get to see many channels historic building at the end, and art museums, make your way here, when you get to The Hague.

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