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Famous horses, daring sports, a living room full of stars and a language of its own. Ten questions about the province in the north of the Netherlands.
Pole-vault rookie 0–4 · Skûtsje sailor 5–8 · Proper Frisian 9–10
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Leeuwarden is the biggest city in the province and was a European Capital of Culture in 2018. Sneek is a lively town further south, famous for sailing and water sports.
Photo: Baykedevries, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Friesians are famous for their glossy black coat and long, wavy mane. Breeders work hard to keep it that way: stallions are even tested to keep chestnut colouring out of the breed.
Photo: Larissa Allen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Say it in Frisian, 'brea, bûter en griene tsiis', and it sounds almost like English, because the two languages share old roots. Frisian is an official language in Friesland, next to Dutch.
Photo: T. Bosse, nach Vorlage von Woadan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Jumpers sprint, grab a pole up to 13 metres long, climb it as it tips forward and try to land in the sand on the other side, not in the water. Farmers once used poles like this to cross ditches to their fields.
Photo: Peter van der Sluijs, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in Leeuwarden in 1898, in a house that is now part of the Princessehof ceramics museum. Piet Mondrian, known for his red, yellow and blue squares, was born in Amersfoort.
Photo: Hans Peters for Anefo, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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Eisinga, a wool carder and amateur astronomer, worked on it for seven years. The planets still move around the painted Sun in real time, making it the oldest working planetarium in the world.
Photo: Bouwe Brouwer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Skûtsjes once carried goods across the Frisian waterways. Today each boat sails for its own town or village, and the races draw big crowds. A botter is a real old Dutch boat too, but it was built for fishing.
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Hindeloopen's sailors grew rich in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the town developed its own costume and a bright style of painting on cupboards, chairs and boxes. Blue-and-white pottery is the speciality of Delft.
Photo: Wutsje / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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They are called pompeblêden: leaves of the yellow water lily. Many people think they are hearts, but the official rules even say they should not be heart-shaped.
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Queen Wilhelmina opened it in 1920 to pump water out of low-lying Friesland. It still fires up its steam engines when the water gets too high, and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.
Photo: Hanno Lans, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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