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Relegating the fact of Dutch as a minor language in far northern France, I wonder if they have lot of windmills, lack of curtains in their windows, dense water network or bike-frindly cities.
There is another typical Dutch thing, just modern turbo-roundabouts since early 2000 when the Dutch government started them as a way to improve safety.
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Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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I'm just curious about that matter.
Although every country has strong cultural traditions and features that are unique, some of these features often have filtered into neighbouring countries.
So, The Netherlands as a whole has these facts listed below:
Bike-friendly cities.
Red brick architecture.
Persistent lack of curtains in their windows..
This seems very common in the countries around the north sea, england, netherlands, northern Germany... Concerning the windows, lack of chutters and often sach window’is also widely spread in this area, especially in England.
There is absolutely no Dutch influence in Dover whatsoever! If anything East Anglia would be 'closer' to Dutch both relatively flat and historically extensive use of windmills! Apart from that nothing. If you catch a ferry to Holland I believe you would embark from Suffolk rather than Kent?
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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This seems very common in the countries around the north sea, england, netherlands, northern Germany... Concerning the windows, lack of chutters and often sach window’is also widely spread in this area, especially in England.
Only a little part of french flanders were flemish-speaking. In this area you can find some places names than look flemish or francized flemish. The biggest city there is Dunkerque, but very few people speak flemish there today.
I’d say the nord area look and feels culturally belgian rather than Dutch. More chaotic, less «*clean*», the stereotypes of Netherlands such as windmills, dutch windows, etc do not really exist. The flemish-derived architecture might have common points with Netherlands’s but still is different. Once again more Belgian mixed with french influences rather than Dutch.
That said, this area of France is part of the wider north sea area and share many cultural and achitectural common points with othern countries of this area that the rest of France doesn't have., but these are not only Dutch.
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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What about Lille, Dunkerque and Calais?
As I said most Dutch sterotypes you talked about do not really exist in Lille or Calais. These place feels like a french\belgian mixed rather than Dutch witch is quite different.
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