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 ...

Like much of the country, Kinderdijk lies below sea level. One thousand years ago, the area was a peat bog, visited by hunters and fishermen only in the summer when the water subsided. Early ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.