National Tulip Day

National Tulip Day, 2013

National Tulip Day (Dutch: Nationale Tulpendag) is an annual event in January that preludes the tulip season in the Netherlands. The event is being organized on the Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam since 2012. During this day a special garden of 200,000 tulips covers the square. In the morning people can view the tulips from a gangway and in the afternoon people can pick the tulips for free. The tulips are from North Holland.

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