Picture: Madurodam, Holland in miniature

Madurodam is a miniature city between Scheveningen and The Hague, Netherlands, that is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale, composed by (typical Dutch) buildings and landmarks that are found in various places of the country. This major Dutch tourist attraction was built in 1952 and has been visited by tens of millions of visitors since then. The minituare city was named after George Maduro, a student from Curaçao died at Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and whose parents donated the money to start the Madurodam project. copyright free picture of Madurodam, from http://www. ... copyright free picture of Madurodam, from http://www. ... Scheveningen is part of Den Haag. ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... A physical model is used in various contexts to mean a physical representation of some thing. ... A scale is either a device used for measurement of weights, or a series of ratios against which different measurements can be compared. ... Curaçao and Bonaire are two Caribbean islands Curaçao [pronounced koo-rah-sow] (population 150,000) is an island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea, the largest and most populous of the Windward Islands of the Netherlands Antilles, a self-governing part of the Kingdom of the... SS Chief Heinrich Himmler inspects the Dachau concentration camp (1936) The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp near the city of Dachau, north of Munich, in southern Germany. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

On 2 July 1952, then-princess Beatrix was appointed as mayor of Madurodam, after which she was shown around in her town. When she was appointed queen of the Netherlands, she laid down this function. Nowadays, the mayor of Madurodam is elected from the youth municipal council, which consists of 25 pupils of schools in the region. July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands reads her countrys Speech from the Throne. ...

External link

Official Madurodam website (http://www.madurodam.nl/)