Video: Giethoorn - Dutch village with Venetian charm
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It is known that the American writer Truman Capote compared Venice to a box of chocolates with liqueur eaten in one sitting. Perhaps, if he had a chance to visit the village of Giethoornbetter known as Dutch Venice, then one box of treats would not be enough. Picturesque canals, fifty wooden bridges, cozy boats and quaint houses - all this will win the heart of the most sophisticated traveler!
The history of the emergence of this unusual village is very interesting. In 1230, a group of refugees from the Mediterranean established a settlement here. The name Geytenhorn, which means "goat's horn", was not given to this area by accident: earlier herders lived on this territory, but the flood of 1170 devastated these lands, so that the settlers who settled here were reminded of the past only by a large number of goat's horns. Over time, the name of the village acquired a modern sound - Giethoorn.
But the "highlight" of the village of Giethoorn - the numerous lakes - is also not a natural phenomenon, but the result of human activity. Peat was mined on this territory for a long time (wells in the ground eventually turned into lakes), and canals were built to transport it. Today, the village, teeming with water bodies, has become one of the main attractions in the Netherlands.
The world learned about the village of Giethoorn in 1958, when the Dutch director Bert Hanstra filmed his famous comedy Fanfare here. Tourists began to come here to admire the classic Dutch architecture (here you can see houses covered with thatched roofs, preserved from the 18-19 centuries), plunge into the atmosphere of calm and silence, and also ride the famous silent motor boats that do not break the reigning harmony … For a long time, the canals remained the only means of communication in the village, but not so long ago, several bicycle paths were built here.
By the way, Venice of the Netherlands is not the only Dutch twin attraction. Earlier we have already told our readers about an unusual "green" copy of Notre Dame de Paris - a "cathedral" whose walls are not made of stone, but of … trees!
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