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The North Holland Peninsula is a region within the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.
NS railways are usually your best bet of getting to various towns from major cities south. Trains usually run every 30 minutes to and from most major cities and some major towns.
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Amsterdam · International · AMS
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the cheese market and picturesque historic centre
a typical West Frisian rural community, on the dike
artist village at the beach and the Schoorlse Duinen
the Museum Broeker Veiling is notably interesting
has a nice beach, the lake of Alkmaar-Uitgeest and the dunes
home to the country's main naval base and the ferry to Texel
historic town with the Zuiderzeemuseum, a large open-air museum about the Netherlands in the period 1850-1950
built around a white church, this town expanded rapidly due to an influx of inhabitants from Amsterdam
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