North Holland

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 8, 2026

North Holland is Travelog's home for Amsterdam, anchored by the Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area, inscribed by UNESCO in 2010 under criteria (i), (ii), and (iv), covering roughly 198 hectares of historic canals built at the end of the 16th and start of the 17th centuries.

Amsterdam's canal ring earned UNESCO recognition relatively recently, in 2010, a genuine, specific detail worth knowing before assuming every European UNESCO site dates back to the list's earliest decades, live below with its full landmark coverage.