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Castles, a famous picture-book star, an emperor in exile and a giant tower. Ten questions about the green province in the middle of the Netherlands.
Passing through 0–4 · Heuvelrug hiker 5–8 · Honorary Utrechter 9–10
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Utrecht lies in the centre of the country, surrounded mostly by North Holland, South Holland and Gelderland. That is why so many Dutch trains and motorways pass through it.
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Dick Bruna drew Miffy for the first time in 1955. Her Dutch name, nijntje, comes from 'konijntje', little rabbit. Dikkie Dik is a real Dutch picture-book star too: a ginger cat drawn by Jet Boeke.
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De Haar was rebuilt around 1900 on the ruins of a medieval castle, with towers, a moat and huge gardens. Loevestein is a real castle too, but it stands in the province of Gelderland.
Photo: Rafa.rivero, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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In the ice age before the last one, a huge sheet of ice slid into the Netherlands and pushed the ground up like a bulldozer. Today the ridge is a national park full of forests and heath.
Photo: MartinD, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Juliana moved in with Prince Bernhard after their wedding in 1937 and lived there until 2004. On her birthday, crowds came to the palace to walk past and wave to her.
Photo: Jan van Galen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Mondrian started out painting windmills and trees, and slowly made his work simpler until only lines and colour blocks were left. Karel Appel was a famous Dutch painter too, born in Amsterdam.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The mast is about 367 metres high, more than three times the height of the tallest Dutch church tower. In 1998 it even got into the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest Christmas tree in the world, with strings of lights hung from the top.
Photo: Gouwenaar, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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People believed witches weighed almost nothing, so they could fly on a broomstick. The scales in Oudewater were honest, and nobody was ever found to be a witch there. Visitors can still be weighed today and take home a certificate.
Photo: Onderwijsgek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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After the First World War, Wilhelm II fled to the Netherlands and lived at Huis Doorn from 1920 until 1941. The house is now a museum, still full of his furniture. Charles I of Austria spent his exile on the island of Madeira.
Photo: GVR, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
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Dorestad lay where the Rhine split into branches, so ships from England, France and Scandinavia came to trade there. Later the river moved away, and the town slowly disappeared.
Photo: Sonty567, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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