Tag: Netherlands

Shopping Overview The Netherlands is a great place to shop. Many cities have attractive pedestrian zones with cozy cafés and small boutiques, and internationally renowned fashion brands are also widespread. In the big cities, modern shopping centers are also increasingly found, which are often located in commercial areas on the outskirts. Popular souvenirs include clogs […]

ECONOMY: MINERAL RESOURCES AND INDUSTRY The country, poorly provided with mineral resources (it is almost completely devoid of metal ores), has more resources in the energy sector: more than coal (Limburg basin) and oil (Coevorden and Rijswijk fields).), natural gas counts in the local economy, of which the Netherlands are among the largest suppliers in […]

CULTURE: GENERAL INFORMATION The ancient Netherlands, a geographical area including Flanders (now included in Belgium) and part of northern France, enjoyed considerable economic and cultural prosperity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, thanks to an extremely geographical position. favorable, at the confluence of three major European rivers, the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt. Subsequently, […]