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One of the main symbols of Netherlands is related to the country’s famous, numerous and beautiful windmills. Netherlands came to be closely associated with these machines. There are around 1,200 of them, so it’s no wonder they have become iconic. The Dutch people built these windmills for centuries and for different purposes like land drainage, corn milling and saw milling. The windmills have become a symbol of the Dutch struggle with water and an icon of the Dutch landscape.
Even if the windmills are used in so many places in Netherlands and windmill related automated mechanisms have been developed and used in other countries, the Dutch ones are still rather primitive using canvas sails but that’s probably what makes them so special.
