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The Holland FestivalFounded in 1947, The Holland Festival is now the trend-setting performance arts festival in the Netherlands. The festival highlights a mixture of all the performance arts and a mix of daring experiments and thus audience can expect Music Theater and music performances, and other events like visual arts, literature, and architecture. After its founding, the first performance took place in June 15, 1948 at Amsterdam City Theater. Genres that can be witnessed during the festival include classical and contemporary music, opera, Music Theater, dance, multidisciplinary theater productions, pop music, world music, and film and incidental presentations. In order to complete the June Festival Atmosphere, delicious foods and drinks are also available nearby the festival location for the spectators to...
National Park De Hoge Veluwe
One of the largest and the oldest national parks in the Netherlands, the National Park De Hoge Veluwe is a perfect attraction to visit when visiting the Netherlands. With no less than 5, 5000 hectares of woodland, heathland, lakes and driftstand, visitors of the park will surely enjoy the numerous activities that they can do like cycling using one of the free white bicycles or simply enjoy meeting face to face with various plants and animals of different species. The white bicycles are definitely the most known features of the park. The bicycles that are 1,700 in number helps the visitors to reach all the special places of the park at no extra cost and are available at the entrances of the park. Those who wanted to stay longer or overnight at the park, they can do the camping at the Hoenderloo...
Deltapark Neeltje Jans
When visiting the Netherlands, your travel will never be complete without taking the chance to visit the coolest water park in the Netherlands, the Deltapark Neeltje Jans. With various attractions within the park itself, visitors will definitely enjoy their visit to the said water park. Attractions include the water slide, seals, hurricane simulator, 3D film, water playground, and the Moby dick. The Water Slide is the place where kids and adults alike will surely enjoy the fun of rushing down the waters in the park’s huge water slide. Seals, the masters in the art of playing with water are abundant in Delta and these creations are one of the attractions that visitors would love to see when visiting the Deltapark Neeltje Jans. One can even take a closer look at the Seals at the seal pool. Upon...
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The Summer Carnival RotterdamThe most colorful and tropical party of the Netherlands can be witnessed during the Summer Carnival Rotterdam. During the carnival is a series of events that locale and tourists alike will surely do not want to miss. If you have not witnessed the 2009 carnival and wanted to make it on the next year’s carnival, then you must take note of the following dates and events. On July 20 – the Queen Election event is happening on this day. The election is not like many of the beauty pageant that we know and see. The Summer Carnival Queen election is not only about beauty but is also about brains. Being the Summer Carnival Queen, they were to represent the festival on several occasions. In this regard, their complete knowledge about the Summer Carnival and its cultural inheritance is very important....
The Pinkpop Festival
The Pinkpop Festival or Pinkpop is an annual celebration in Landgraaf, Netherlands. The festival is a rock festival and is the oldest annual festival in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. The festival happens every Pentecost weekend and it features various known artist worldwide. During the festival, there are four large campsites available for the visitors of about 50,000 in number. In the 2010 Pinkpop festival, 40 bands will be performing live on its three stages. The Festival Campsites Each of the four campsites present in the festival features hot showers, running water, supermarkets, free toilets, information desk, campaign store, first aid stand, token registers, and numerous food and drink stands. However there no electricity, and campers and mobile home are not allowed....
The North Sea Jazz Festival
The Festival One of Holland’s unique and historic festivals is The North Sea Jazz Festival. The first festival took place in 1976 and the annual celebration continues until today. During the first festival that happens in the Netherlands Congresgebouw in The Hague, various known artists like Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie are just a few of the three hundred artists that render a performance in the then six venues and around nine thousand spectators. After a few years, the festival has become known internationally and the then six venues became fifteen, and the then 300 artists are now thirteen hundred and the audience has widely grown into between sixty-five to seventy-thousand. With its popularity, the festival has found its new home in 2006 and that is in Ahoy Rotterdam. What...
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