Nineteen windmills in a row make the picture. UNESCO protects something larger: polders, storage basins, pumping stations and sluices that work together to lift water upwards.
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The green wooden façades look like a seventeenth-century village. Most of the buildings have stood here only since the 1960s.
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Among the trees near Marknesse lie concrete basins and winding channels. This is not an ornamental park pond. They are scale models of hydraulic works.
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In Alphen aan den Rijn, a Roman inn, a terp farmhouse and a medieval house stand side by side. Almost none of them is the original structure uncovered by archaeologists.
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The fairy-tale houses in Kaatsheuvel look as though generations have already lived in them. Behind that impression lie drawings and craftsmanship: new buildings are given a story in their façades.
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