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Holanda Meridional · the Netherlands
In the destination Rotterdam and Kinderdijk.
In the photo: Former Schiedam City Hall
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The city
City adjoining Rotterdam to the west, granted city rights in 1275 and famous as the capital of jenever. Distillation dominated the local economy for centuries, and huge windmills were built on the old city walls to power it. The historic center preserves brick warehouses, drawbridges, canals with old boats, the Nationaal Jenevermuseum, and these windmills, which are among the largest of their kind.
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The local experience
Jenever museum housed in a former distillery on the Lange Haven, in central Schiedam. It combines an exhibition, an active distillery and the De Walvisch windmill, where the grain was milled.
The windmills on the old walls of Schiedam, built in the 18th and 19th centuries to grind grain for the distilleries. They are among the tallest of their type in the world, and some still operate.
Municipal museum of modern and contemporary art, in the former Sint-Jacobs Gasthuis hospital on Hoogstraat. It has a collection of post-war Dutch art and, in the basement, an exhibition about the city’s history and the jenever industry.
