Schansend 7, 1509 AW Zaandam, Netherlands

Very beautiful place. If you're in Amsterdam you shouldn't miss it. And it's free to visit..!
Really easy to reach from Amsterdam by car, about 15-20min drive.
The bad thing about driving is that the parking cost 10€.

It's such a nice and beautiful place to walk around, looking at the mills and the small houses.
The windmills are very beautiful, and for a small fee (5€) you can enter a couple of them. There's a narrow path along the river, that runs past all the mills. We were there on a crowded day, the path is too narrow for big crowds.

There's a wooden shoe workshop, where they show the history of the famous clog. We were lucky that they held a demonstration of how clogs were made, when we came in. Interesting to see.

There's also a small cheese factory, where you can taste various cheese.

There are numerous places to buy food and drinks, and also souvenirs.
We spent about 2 hours there.

Very interesting place about the life of a sixteenth century village with windmills.  One of the windmills is free for entry.  The others have an entry fee.  The rest of the village has shops where they represent workers from the sixteenth century.  There are plenty of opportunities to buy souvenirs.  Nice to get out of Amsterdam and see the countryside.

Loved walking around all the working mills truly spectacular!

Lots of them are free to walk in and see inside and some of them do charge a fee €5 more or less depending on which one you go in!

So nice and definitely worth to take your time walk around and enjoy it all so much to enjoy !

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