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A wonder of the modern world according to engineers, the Delta Works – or Deltawerken in Dutch – is a series of dams, sluices, levees, dikes and a storm-surge barrier designed to protect the Netherlands from rising storm water. Following the deadly North Sea Flood in 1953, the Delta Works Commission was launched to find a solution to the danger of rising sea levels. Despite research and planning beginning in the 1950s, the 13 parts of the Delta Works in the province of Zeeland took around 50 years to finish.
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Duration: 11 to 13 hours
Starts: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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A wonder of the modern world according to engineers, the Delta Works – or Deltawerken in Dutch – is a series of dams, sluices, levees, dikes and a storm-surge barrier designed to protect the Netherlands from rising storm water. Following the deadly North Sea Flood in 1953, the Delta Works Commission was launched to find a solution to the danger of rising sea levels. Despite research and planning beginning in the 1950s, the 13 parts of the Delta Works in the province of Zeeland took around 50 years to finish.
Pass By: Rotterdam, Rotterdam, South Holland Province
We’ll pass the harbor and Eurotower
Stop At: Brouwershaven, Brouwershaven, Zeeland Province
We’ll go for coffee at a nice cafe, above the sea…..
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Deltapark Neeltje Jans, Strand Neeltje Jans Faelweg 5, 4354 Vrouwenpolder The Netherlands
One of the structures that forms part of the Zeeland Delta Works is the Eastern Scheldt Storm-Surge Barrier – or, Oosterscheldekering. And in the middle of that sits the manmade island of Neeltje Jans. During your visit, you can watch how the North Sea Flood wiped out part of the Netherlands at the Delta Experience film presentation. Celebrating all things water, there’s an aquarium too. (If you’re brave enough, you can swim with sharks!)
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Vrouwenpolder Beach, Veere The Netherlands
When the tide is right, and you love oysters, we will pick some of them at the sea. Then we have a fish meal in the Mussel harbor or we have a lunch at a beach house on the beach
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Veere, Veere, Zeeland Province
The once mighty Veere is now a beautiful medieval town on the Veerse Meer lake. Where richly laden ships from Scotland once moored, pleasure yachts now bob in the harbours.
The town began as the hamlet of Kampvere in the 13th century. Veere only began to flourish in the 16th century, when it became the staple port for Scottish wool. A Scottish colony was established in Veere at that time, complete with its own governor.
Veere was an important city in the Dutch Republic. But during the Batavian Republic that followed, it again became a poor fishing port.
Although Veere lost its staple rights in 1799, Scottish interest in the city remained. No European town ever played a more important economic role for Scotland than Veere once did.
The museum called De Schotse Huizen aan de Kaai (the Scottish houses on the quay) commemorates the Scottish heyday in the town. The museum is spread over two Scottish merchants’ houses: Het Lammeken and De Struijs. It includes a Scottish Room, decorated as a reception room, and an office of the Scottish governor, like that of the one who once ruled in Veere.
The 15th-century town hall was built by the Keldermans family from Mechelen, who also built the town hall in Middelburg. It is topped by a 16th-century carillon tower. The badly weathered images on the façade were replaced by new ones during the 1931-1934 restoration. The old images are now on display in De Schotse Huizen museum.
The Campveerse Toren (Campvere Tower) sits in a prominent place along the Veerse Meer. It was built as part of the city defences around 1500. Thereafter, it served as an inn and a lighthouse. It remains one of the oldest inns in the Netherlands.
The imposing Grote Kerk church stands on the southeast side of Veere. It was completed in 1521 and has played many roles over the years: house of worship, military hospital and poorhouse. Nowadays, it is used as a cultural centre.
A striking pink façade welcomes visitors to one of Veere’s nicest shops: Oma’s Snoepwinkel (Grandma’s Candy Shop). Here you can choose from more than 100 kinds of old Dutch candy, such as the sugary sweet ‘ulevellen’ and traditional ‘duimdrop’ liquorice. Plenty of other shops in Veere are open on Sundays.
There are always things to do throughout the year in Veere. For instance, you can attend ring riding and carriage riding events in the summer. Ring riding is a folkloric tradition in which a man on horseback tries to put a lance through a ring. In carriage riding, a man and a woman in traditional Zeeland costume ride in a chaise: a two-wheeled, often antique, carriage pulled by a horse.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Middelburg, Middelburg, Zeeland Province
After Veere, we drive to historic Middelburg, who obtained her city rights over 800 years ago and was one of the worlds most important cities (remenber the VOC company) in the “golden age” (17th century)
We show you Middelburg from a boat and have afterwords a small walkingtour true the centerwhere we and at the medieval marketsquare for a optional dinner.
Duration: 2 hours
