Nationaal Park Weerribben-Wieden
Vast reed-fringed wetland of lakes, ditches and peat strips carved by centuries of turf cutting.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Nationaal Park Weerribben-Wieden near Giethoorn begins on a November night in seventeen seventy-six, when a storm came in off the Zuiderzee towards a peat-digging village called Beulake. It reaches back to the centuries of turf cutting that dug the ditches and drying strips around you, and asks how much of this wild-looking water people made themselves. Best heard at the water's edge on Oeverweg.
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