Travel Notes: The Windmill of Leiden, Netherlands (October 22, 2008)

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Photo caption: Photos of the windmill in Leiden, Netherlands which was converted into a museum. Taken using my cellphone camera (N6500) on October 22, 2008. From the photo collection of Raffy Saldana (http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com)

Note: I visited Leiden, Netherlands on October 22, 2008. One of the interesting sights I saw in Leiden is the windmill which was converted into a museum.

Facts about Leiden:

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden

Excerpts:

• Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants.

• It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants.

• It is located on the Old Rhine, close to the cities of The Hague and Haarlem.
  
• The recreational area of the Kaag Lakes (Kagerplassen) lies just to the northeast of Leiden.
  
• A university town since 1575, Leiden houses:
  Leiden University;
  Leiden University Medical Centre.
  
• Leiden is twinned with Oxford, the location of England's oldest university.
  
• The windmill shown in the photo was built in 1743. This windmill is one of the city's original 19 mills that still exist. It is/was a corn-grinding windmill and is now home to a museum.
  

Cheers,

Raffy