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Temporary bench by Rogier Martens uses straps to attach to trees
The Pop-Up City writes: As part of his ‘Aandeboom’ series, which means something like ‘attached to trees’, the Utrecht-based spatial designer Rogier Martens has come up with a remarkable design for a...
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Get married for free in Amersfoort on 11 December 2013
For those of you shopping for a free wedding like the ones offered in Beuningen and Arnhem a few years back, the city of Amersfoort, Utrecht (where painter Piet Mondriaan was born) is offered free...
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Major UK Mondrian exhibition opens in Liverpool
On June 6, The Tate Liverpool museum will be opening the exhibition Mondrian and his studios, a huge UK Mondrian exhibition, including a life-size reconstruction of his Paris studio, all commemorating...
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Boris Johnson insults the Dutch hand that helps him
A bit of a buffoon at home if we believe the media and quick to call Amsterdam ‘sleazy’ as the Mayor of Amsterdam and King Willem-Alexander were visiting London (which was nice), the Mayor of London...
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Watch and listen to a marble tsunami
Need a break from cat videos? Back in 2015 Jelle Bakker from Amersfoort built a Mouse Trap-like course at Monkey Town in Gouda for 11,000 marbles all rolling around at the same time. Bakker, who is...
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Cute mushrooms from the woods near Amersfoort
Spotted during an autumn fall hike at the Treekerpunt nature area south of Amersfoort, Astrid Hinderks photographed these small mushrooms hiding inside an old tree, and they’re really cute! Sometimes...
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Amersfoort commemorates mass execution of Soviet prisoners
According to Remco Reiding of the Russisch Ereveld Foundation, April 9 marked 75 years since the second biggest mass execution in the Netherlands during WWII took place, a very little known history...
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Building in Amersfoort has an emoji façade
In the Vathorst area of Amersfoort, Attika Architekten from Amsterdam has created a building that features a modern, quirky façade with 22 funny-faced emoji. “In classical architecture they used heads...
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Tax office loses fight against Dutch preacher
A preacher of the Reformed Congregations (Protestant) from Amersfoort, Utrecht got into it with the Dutch tax office over wanting to deduct a dress jacket he used for special occasions like weddings...
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Rainiest King’s Day since 1955 goes by without incident
Yesterday King’s Day was the wettest in over 60 years. With 8.9 millimeters of precipitation, only 1955 was rainier (9.6 millimetres), Parool reports. Perhaps as a result King’s Day was otherwise...
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