A taste of Dutch art and culture

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Comenius presentation obs De Dubbelster Amersfoort
, the Netherlands A taste of Europe
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Introduction

• Obs de Dubbelster situated in Amersfoort
• The Netherlands has12 provinces
• Amersfoort is in the centre of the Netherlands in
  the province of Utrecht
• 16.515.057 people on 41.528 km² 398 people per
  km²
• Multicultural society
• Monarchy Queen Beatrix
• Flag red/white/blue
• Symbol of the Netherlands Orange Lion

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Koppelpoort
Tower Lange Jan
Obs de Dubbelster
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A taste of the typically Dutch

• Tulips/ flowers
• Wooden shoes /Klompen
• Edam and Gouda Cheese
• Delftware
• 20 million bicycles
• Amsterdam canals and historic buildings
• Old-fashioned and modern windmills

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A taste of the Dutch (under) waterworld

• Netherlands 18 of the area consists of rivers,
  lakes, canals etc.
• More than 30 lies below sea level
• Water management
• Dikes/delta-works/afsluitdijk
• Land of rivers (Rhine, Meuse, IJssel)
• Old and new bridges
• Transport over water, the port of Rotterdam

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Water management
30 below sea level
Delta works
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Dikes
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Afsluitdijk
Delta works are necessary
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Zeeland bridge
Erasmus bridge Rotterdam
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Port of Rotterdam
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A taste of Dutch events

• Traditional sailing events
• Ice-skating (elfstedentocht 200 km), Thialf
• Traditional new-year dive in sea
• Sinterklaas
• Queensday vrijmarkt

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Modern sailing events
Replica of the VOC ship Batavia, 1628
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Speed skating
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New-year dive, Scheveningen
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Sinterklaas, 5 December
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QUEENSDAY APRIL 30
Market on queensday
Queens day,
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A taste of Dutch art and culture

• Great Dutch Painters
• Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)
• Jan Steen (1626-1679)
• Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
• Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
• Dutch culture
• The diary of Anna Frank

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Johannes Vermeer
Rembrandt van Rijn
Vincent van Gogh
Jan Steen
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Diary Of Anna Frank
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A taste of the Netherlands

• We eat a lot of international dishes.
• There is no such thing as Dutch restaurant.
• But we do have some typical Dutch food.
• For breakfast and lunch we eat Bread,
• bread with chocolate sprinkles, apple-syrup,
  cheese, ham, etc.
• For dinner we have potatoes and stew
• In the winter we eat Pea-soup
• We have a very special way of eating salty
  herring
• For snacks we eat Frikandel, kroket and
  bitterballen. Its meat prepared in varies ways
  and fried.
• Poffertjes (tiny pancakes)
• We eat a lot of biscuits, Stroopwafels
  (syrup-waffle) and Pepernoten (spicy biscuits)
  are typical dutch
• Drop (its a very salty candy)

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Bread
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Potatoes and stew
Pea soup
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Our way of eating herring (fish)
kroket
snacks
Bitterballen
Frikandel
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Poffertjes (tiny pancakes)
Pepernoten, (spicy biscuits)
Sirup waffles
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