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The Netherlands is famous for skating. Probably a greater percentage of the Dutch learn to skate than people in any other country. It was one of the subjects immortalized by Dutch and Flemish artists (16th century). The country is a low-lying part of Europe. Thus there are streams, lakes, ponds, and canals everywhere, including the cities. Thus where people in some countries may go out for a brisk wintr walk, the Dutch have traditiionally taken off wuith skates. Sometimes it is a family outing. One of the most cherished national images is rosy-cheeked children all wrapped tight in cozy warm coats and brightly colored wool scarves and stocking caps, of course with poms, hapily skating on frozen canals with snow flakes falling all around. There are parks where skating takes place, but much of it takes place on the canals that cut across cities like Ansterdam. Today they are inside rinks where people can skate. This tradition in the modern Netherlands mkay be declining somewhat.
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