Colorful houses in Holland and three windows on the facade - this is not an accident, it is a necessity!
Oh, what a beautiful, what an attractive country Holland! Oh, excuse me, not Holland, now the correct name is the Netherlands, but it is still somehow more customary to call it the old fashioned way.
So, Holland is very, very beautiful! There are old and modern mills that are still useful, there are huge, burning colorful fields of tulips (instead of the usual potatoes and ears of corn), there are hordes of cyclists filling the streets instead of cars. And there are also very cute, colorful houses! So pretty!
You look at the street and you are surprised - the houses are all different, but it seems that they have simply grown together. Well, there is no gap between them! They stand close to each other and can stretch like this for a whole block.
Each house has its own roof, each house has its own facade - now red, then blue, then gray. Each has its own design. But - what are you going to do! - everything is linked together. What kind of attack is this? Why did different houses have to be so sculpted one after another, back to back?
Moreover, each house is very narrow and each has only three windows in width. Not four, not five, but three. And how did it happen?
But, imagine, everything is cunning! It turns out that this is not an architect's mistake, not an accidental action. So really it was necessary and brought considerable benefit. It turns out that at the time these houses were built in Holland, there was a fairly strict taxation. Build a house - pay tax. The larger the house, the higher the tax. If you don't want to pay much, build a more modest house. A house with three windows is normal. And if more - if you please fork out.
And what, one wonders, was the rich to do, who wanted a big house, and were sorry to spend the extra? Right! Cunning! They built houses as large as they needed, but divided it into parts with three windows. The facade is red, there are three windows on it, a high roof - it seems like one dwelling. The facade is blue, three windows, the roof is lower - still a dwelling. And so on. Inside the house is common, but outside there are five or six different houses!
So that's it. People were cunning out of necessity, but now such a benefit! These colorful houses with three windows in Amsterdam are the hallmark of Holland.
And in the Netherlands there is also one nuance associated with windows - the Dutch do not hang curtains! Well, maybe very modern residents, and even people from other countries and hang, but traditionally this was not accepted. Because it was supposed to live in plain sight. And everyone - the neighbors, the police - had to see how a person lives, that he is not planning anything bad and in general everything is in order with him.
Even now, when you are in small Dutch towns, you see that there are no curtains, and you can easily look into someone else's window and spy on what is going on there. However, the openness of life among modern Dutch people is still not as great as before, and often they try to put something on the windowsills that will protect them from prying eyes. For example, a fluffy, spreading flower. Or a picture. In a word, who will think of something.
Come on, guys, could you survive without curtains on the window? Are you ready for such a life wide open?
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