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Nous arrivions dans ce charmant village recompose comme un musee de plein air, personne encore, seuls dans cet endroit magique.

Le village se nomme Zaanse Schans,pres de Zaandam.

The Zaanse Schans is a delightful old hamlet on the banks of the river Zaan with characteristic green wooden houses, charming styalised gardens, small hump-backed bridges, tradesmen's workshops, historic windmills and engaging little shops.

This enchanting hamlet gives an excellent impression of how a typical Zaanse village must have looked like in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Apart from the cluster of windmills and houses there are also several museums, restaurants and a visitors' centre to be found as well as the possibility of taking a boat trip on the river.

The Zaanse Schans has become one of the top tourist destinations in the Netherlands.

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