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This year's Keukenhof festival, themed "Netherlands," features an exhibition on the history and cultivation of tulips. At this year's festival, you'll have the opportunity to learn the stories behind the tulips, a flower that the Dutch people are so proud of. In addition, the festival boasts vibrant and creative flower gardens, meticulously manicured to depict symbols of the Netherlands, creating a beautiful miniature city of flowers, along with over 60,000 tulip-shaped lights decorating the gardens…
The town of Lisse has been the largest flower-growing area in the Netherlands since the Middle Ages, but it only became known to the world in 1949 when the tulip garden was created and the mayor of Lisse opened a flower exhibition bringing together the country's largest flower growers and others from around the world. Today, Keukenhof is the world's largest flower garden, covering 32 hectares and featuring 4.5 million tulips of 100 different varieties. In addition, the park also grows 2,500 other flowering plants. In total, there are 7 million flowering plants of 1,600 different varieties grown there.
The endless rows of vibrant, colorful flowers, planted in themed small gardens along canals where swans swim, make you feel like you're living in a fairy tale. The tulips in Keukenhof Gardens have become true works of art, and admiring them is also a way of showing respect for the talent and hard work of the Dutch people who tirelessly care for them day and night, only to open the gardens to visitors for two months each year.
Keukenhof is a flower paradise, a haven for true nature lovers. Stepping foot here, you'll not only admire the masterpieces of flowers but also feel the refreshing and relaxing atmosphere of a dreamy paradise, brimming with the energy of spring. Besides the flower festival, a visit to the beautiful Netherlands also offers the chance to admire and explore the history of windmills in the village of Kinderdijk – a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997; visit the rural village of Zaanse Schans, traditional wooden clog and cheese factories, the Heineken Museum, take photos at the Royal Palace, and cruise on the Amstel River…
