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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Giethoorn

3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Giethoorn.

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UNESCO sites in Giethoorn

  • Colonies of BenevolenceCultural · 2021 · 14 km

    The transnational serial property is an Enlightenment experiment in social reform. These cultural landscapes demonstrate an innovative, highly influential 19th-century model of pauper relief and of settler colonialism, w…

  • Schokland and SurroundingsCultural · 1995 · 24 km

    Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then abandoned as the sea encroached, it had to be evacuated in 1859. But following the draining of the Zuider Zee, it has, since the …

  • Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)Cultural · 1998 · 29 km

    The Wouda Pumping Station at Lemmer in the province of Friesland opened in 1920. It is the largest steam-pumping station ever built and is still in operation. It represents the high point of the contribution made by Neth…

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