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Main Canal, Veenhuizen
Colonies of Benevolence2021
UNESCO World Heritage
This was an experiment that was aimed at improving not only poor people, but also poor soil at the same time: a highly functional landscape was created out of isolated peat and heath wastelands that had previously been considered to be unfit for settlement.
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- Title: Main Canal, Veenhuizen
- Creator: Colonies of Benevolence
- Date Created: 2021
- Rights: Miranda Drenth
- Location: Netherlands
- Inscription Criteria: Criteria: (ii)(iv)
- Date of Inscription: 2021
- Category of Site: Cultural site
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