A power point presentation done by my students in 4.Dbh 2012 (Alba,Ayose,Naroa and Alexandra)

1. The Netherlands
There are 15 million people. It consists of two provinces:
South Holland and North Holland. The term “ Holland”
comes from the words“Holt-land” and it means Wooden-
land .

2. The official language is Dutch, and the currency
is the euro.

3. Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands (economically
speaking), and it takes part of Randstad (it’s the core of the
conurbation in Europe). In Amsterdam there are 750000
people.

4. The historical center of the city was built in the seventeenth
century. At that time there were many semicircular canals.

5. Amsterdam is known as Venice of the North because it has
a lot of water.

6. C li m a t e
In July the temperatures reach the 17 º C and in
February it’s about 2º C. The average anual
rainfall is about 700 mm.

7. R e li g i o n .
Religion has little
influence in its s ociety.
The majority of the
inhabitants belong to
C atholicis m. (%36)

8. The Dutch love nature ,
Th e c i ty o f
and they
demonstrate it . The re
flo w e r s .
are cheerful coloured
flowers growing
everywhere in Holland
.
You can see tulips in
all the streets of the
city , and sceneries
full of color all over
the country.

9. In Holland, chees e is very
G a s tro n o m y .
famous . For example:
Gouda and E dammer.
A ls o, there are very
famous Maatjes (famous
Dutch fis h) and
croquettes .
The Dutc h cooking is very
s imple: they eat a lot of
potatoes and
vegetables ;there are als o
many types of fis h.

10. In Holland they eat and
they produce a lot of
chocolate . In
Amsterdam there are a
lot of factories of cocoa.
Dutch people love "vla"
( creamy pudding) and
"poffertjes"(omelettes
with sugar).

11. B e ve ra g e s .
For a long time the Dutch
drank beer, but lately they
have started to drink
much wine.
Mineral water is not as
popular as in other
countries, but milk is. For
this reason the Dutch are
the tallest people in the
world.

12. Laws.
Between all the laws of Holland the most
striking one is the legality of drugs and
prostitution. It is possible to buy
marijuana, hallucinogenic fungi and
hashish.

13. S om e
c o n tro ve rs i a l
issu e s.
Pros titutes work in booths .
They are dis played in
cabins like mannequins
and they are chos en by
cus tomers . Both for this
and for us ing drugs there
are appropriate places in
the Netherlands .