Zaanse Schans Tour from Amsterdam

Explore a historic collection of Dutch windmills on this tour from Amsterdam

The Dutch have always been a resourceful lot and from the late 1500s onwards they set about harnessing the power of the wind that sweeps across this low-lying country by building windmills. Eventually almost 10,000 of them would dot the countryside but today only a fraction remains, and you can see a series of them at Zaanse Schans.