Holland equals windmills, canals and dikes, museums and green pastures, tall houses and old streets reminding, on occasion, of a Franz Hals or a Vermeer painting.

Amsterdam is vibrant and cosmopolitan, filled with character, culture, and history, a tolerant and hospitable city, built on a network of canals set out in the 17th century. Among them are the remarkable museums, Rijks and Van Gogh Museum, only the two best known. And exactly like in New Amsterdam settled across the Ocean, you have the feeling that “everything goes” in Amsterdam, and all the practices that may be looked at with a frown in conservatives societies, here, are just regarded as “a matter of fact.”

Delft, famous for its porcelain manufactures, has a history of 750 years. Edam used to be the center of Dutch cheese exports. Hoorn is a harbor with a long maritime tradition. Leiden has its first university in the North of Holland dating since 1575 in a city where Rembrandt was born 30 years later.

Hague, the capital, is filled with old and newer palaces, having the first covered shopping street in the Netherlands.