Giethoorn, the country without roads
Are you tired of the Metropolitan traffic and crowded streets of machines? Then in Holland is the place for you. Giethoorn is a village of 2,600 inhabitants in the province of Overijssel, known as the “Venice of the North” for its narrow canals crossed by boats that move like gondolas. Its characteristic is that in the old quarter there are no roads, apart from a cycle track.
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The transport are made by water in the various canals running through this village, famous for its wooden bridges 176 immersed in greenery. Giethoorn, which is 120 km from Amsterdam in the middle of a natural park in an area dotted with swampy bogs, has no roads, because it was designed to hide its inhabitants (of the sect of the Flagellants) from religious persecution in the 12th century.