DUTCH WINDMILL TOURS
Explore these wooden giant machines from pre-industrial age Holland!
A journey back in time
Learn how the Dutch took a technology they brought back from the Crusades and used them to power just about any kind of industrial need hundreds of years before we harnessed steam or electricity.
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Wind was the steam of the pre-industrial revolution in the Netherlands and part of what made it a world power during the Dutch Golden Age (1580's to 1730's)
City Forts of the 80 Year War and their Mills
One of the longest of the Religious Wars of Europe (Protestant vs Catholic) was the 80 Year War in the Netherlands. As a marauding Spanish army ravaged the cities of the Netherlands, the Dutch respond by fortifying cities. These beautiful machines of war are the result.
Beautiful Holland
We offer tours of places and things that are part of our collective history. The Dutch revolution of the 1600's in technology, politics, and economics still inform our world today.