The sun sets at Kinderdijk, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Netherlands, as windmills are illuminated at dusk on Thursday September 5, 2024. "Illumination Week", a fifty plus year tradition ...

Windmills in the Netherlands get record crop of new millers to keep the sails spinning. Published: Feb. 20, 2025, 6:50 a.m. Peter Booij, second left, and Erik d'Ailly, left, walk under the giant ...

Going Dutch: Where windmills turn into living history — Piet Kempennar, the miller at De Kat, has been working with windmills for over 30 years. The grind stones in his windmill are made of ...

These Charming Windmills Are Nearly 300-Years-Old—and Functional. Kinderdijk is a testament to the perseverance of the Dutch people, who have held nature at bay for nearly a millennium.

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — The Dutch are building windmills again. Up and down the coast, out from port cities like this one, you can see them: white and tall and slender as pencils, their slim… ...

Today, the Dutch have implemented other flood prevention methods, but working vintage windmills still exist. Watch as Peter Paul Klapwyk, a modern day miller, tours a windmill that was build in ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --People in the small Dutch village of Kinderdijk celebrated "Illumination Week" on Thursday by illuminating the Netherlands' iconic windmills starting at dusk. The 50-plus-year ...