Mata Hari's home town, the Frisian city: Leeuwarden

[Godius]

Just trying to do 2 pictures per post, to improve page load time.

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1. Sint-Bonifatiuskerk (Saint Boniface Church) in the background.
   
   
2. Old and new, the top of the windmill building is scrapped.
   

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• 3. River Ee
  
  
  4. Ee-area
  
  
  5. Northern bridge, busy bridge towards the town center.
  

[weirdo]

Spectacular photos. I like this city, it's kinda like Amsterdam (I'm not sure if all Dutch cities carry that look) but cleaner and more laid back.

[Nightsky]

Originally Posted by weirdo

Spectacular photos. I like this city, it's kinda like Amsterdam (I'm not sure if all Dutch cities carry that look) but cleaner and more laid back.

Many cities in Holland looks like smaller versions of Amsterdam with canals and typical dutch architecture. Just like you can see similarites between cities in most countries.

[Godius]

A lot of (mid size) cities in the Netherlands had a similar look as a city like Amsterdam until recently. But many of these cities changed a lot, for the most part due to industrialization, the rise of the automobile (reclaiming canals for paved roads) and WWII. Luckily some cities were spared of bombings and canal reclamation.


Thanks for the comments.

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1. EC 2012
   
   
   
   
2. Backside of the Frisian Museum, historical downtown in the background.
   
   
   
   
3. facade detail, Frisian Museum.
   
   

[Eduardo L. Ramirez]

Awesome pics of a great city (it seems)!

Some of them remind me a lot of the relaxed atmosphere in Utrecht, my 2nd favorite city (after The Hague).

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Originally Posted by Eduardo L. Ramirez

Awesome pics of a great city (it seems)!

Some of them remind me a lot of the relaxed atmosphere in Utrecht, my 2nd favorite city (after The Hague).

Thanks man, your feedback means a lot to me.

[DanielFigFoz]

Are there any signs in Frisian there?

[Linguine]

thanks for the lovely photos...

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Originally Posted by DanielFigFoz

Are there any signs in Frisian there?

Not really, about 90 percent of the signs are monolingual in Dutch, the other 10 procent is bilingual. So there are some signs in Frisian but they are more for decoration purposes. It's not like Brussels for example.

Outside the municipality of Leeuwarden, every other municipality can adopt its own language policy in Friesland.

Originally Posted by Linguine

thanks for the lovely photos...

Thank you

[The Cake On BBQ]

Looks rather dense for a city of 97,000. Lovely city, anyway. I really like Frisia, specially rural Frisia

[SimsPlanet2]

Great pictures of Leeuwarden. I study in this city. It looks quite big for a city with almost 95.000+ people.

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Originally Posted by The Cake On BBQ

Looks rather dense for a city of 97,000. Lovely city, anyway. I really like Frisia, specially rural Frisia

Originally Posted by SimsPlanet2

Great pictures of Leeuwarden. I study in this city. It looks quite big for a city with almost 95.000+ people.

Thanks for the kind remarks.

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1. Oude Doelesteeg (popular pub street for students)
   
   
   
   
2. Mercurius fountain (u/c)
   
   
   
   
3. Ruiterskwartier (less popular shopping district)
   
   
   
   
4. Wirdumerpoortsdwinger (canals)
   
   
   
   
5. Façade of the (u/c) Frisian museum
   
   
   

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