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Cities of Holland - A unique photo of every City in The Netherlands with city rights
Cities of Holland
The idea of Cities of Holland is to take a unique photo
of all cities in the Netherlands that have (or had)
city rights.
City rights are a phenomenon in the history of the Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg. The rights where given by a liegelord (for example a duke) to
a settlement he owned. The rights gave certain privileges that settlements
without those rights didn't have. Some examples of city rights are the right
to build a city wall, have a market or the right to charge toll.
In the Netherlands there is a total of about 194 cities with these
city rights. The goal is to take a photo of each of these cities with a
characteristic building or on a characteristic spot of that city.
