With its inner harbours and warehouses, the Frisian port city has one of the most beautiful city centres in the Netherlands. This is mainly thanks to the people of Harlingen, who have been committed to preserving their city for decades.
‘As a child, I was absolutely not allowed to come here,’ says city guide Anneke Visser (78). The Zoutsloot must have been a mess in the fifties and sixties. ‘That was mainly because everyone threw all their rubb…
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With its inner harbours and warehouses, the Frisian port city has one of the most beautiful city centres in the Netherlands. This is mainly thanks to the people of Harlingen, who have been committed to preserving their city for decades.
‘As a child, I was absolutely not allowed to come here,’ says city guide Anneke Visser (78). The Zoutsloot must have been a mess in the fifties and sixties. ‘That was mainly because everyone threw all their rubb…