Giethoorn village is called the village of dreams. It is a very famous tourist spot here. Giethoorn is a village in the Dutch province of Overijssel. Giethoorn is often referred to as 'Little Venice. It is also known as the Venice of the North or Venice of the Netherlands. It is a very beautiful village in the Netherlands. There are about 2,600 citizens live in this area. The biggest specialty of this village is that this village is surrounded by canals. There is no car or bike in this village because there is no single road in this village. Anyone who wants to go somewhere can go by boats. The village, still only fully accessible by boats. Electric boats run in the canals here, through which people travel anywhere. Even the postman reportedly does his rounds via boat. These boats have very little noise, therefore, people have no complaints with them. Visitors are forced to leave cars outside the village, and then travel by boats on foot. Some people have made wooden bridges over the canal passing through the village to move from one place to another. Giethoorn has over 180 bridges. Giethoorn is a very popular attraction among Chinese tourists.
The village was founded by a group of fugitives from the Mediterranean region around AD 1230. Giethoorn used to be a pedestrian precinct. It became locally famous, especially after 1958, when the Dutch film maker Bert Haanstra made his famous comedy Fanfare there. If you have to go from one place to another in the summer season in this village, then you can go with the help of boats but in the winter it is completely reversed. Because in the winter it gets so cold in this village that all the canals get frozen. It becomes perfect for ice skating in winter when the water freezes over. This speciality makes this village more special. If you ever want to go to this village in the winter, you can ice skate over the canals and make your trip more enjoyable.
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