The Zaanse Schans is a historic neighborhood in the municipality of Zaanstad established in 1963 with relocated monumental wooden buildings and industrial mills from the Zaan region. In the course of time, it has been supplemented with various cultural-historical museums, craft shops and restaurants.
If you look around at the Zaanse Schans, you will see history. A feeling of nostalgia and homesickness creeps up on you at the sight of the wooden facades and low doors. Centuries of memories lie as footsteps of the past in every room. Hundreds of years ago people slept, cooked, laughed, cried, loved, argued, were born and died within these walls. And still, the Zaanse Schans is alive and well, because all the buildings are inhabited.
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