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Kinderdijk is a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring 19 iconic 18th-century windmills along a polder waterway, about 15 km east of Rotterdam. It is the most concentrated collection of historic windmills in the Netherlands.
The windmills were built around 1740 to pump water from the Alblasserwaard polder to the Lek River. This ingenious water management system kept the low-lying land habitable. UNESCO inscribed Kinderdijk in 1997 as a masterpiece of Dutch hydraulic engineering.