The World Heritage-listed Kinderdijk windmills are illuminated by LED lights, near Rotterdam, Netherlands. The windmills work in conjunction with pumping stations to move water from the lower ...

Millers living in the 19 windmills that make up the Kinderdijk mill village east of Rotterdam have had enough of mass tourism and are planning to let visitors know on Saturday exactly how they feel.

It attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, dwarfing in number the 60-odd Kinderdijk residents who live there and operate the windmills. And now those millers say they've had enough.

Despite advances in technology, the 18th-century windmills at Kinderdijk have been maintained in working order to serve as a backup system in case more modern equipment fails. And indeed, they ...

T he pretty Dutch village of Kinderdijk has come up with a novel way of tackling a recent wave of mass tourism. Residents of the Unesco-protected windmill neighbourhood have started handing out ...

by John Marshall, The Associated Press, June 30, 2017 | The windmills at Kinderdijk were built in the mid-1700s, and are a combination of Dutch history and modern-day functionality. Read more here.