Amsterdam
It was urgent, last Saturday at Dam Square. Crowds of flower fans came to the heart of Amsterdam to pick a bunch of tulips for free on National Tulip Day. The waiting time increased to more than an hour.
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It is an impressive building, the Royal Palace on Dam Square. Large halls, marble floors. But there is one downside: the king has no garden. Fortunately, the tulip industry helps the frost one day a year by building a tulip garden in the square in front of the palace door.
According to a young tradition, this happens on the third Saturday of January: the National Tulip Day. For the industry, this is the start of the cutting tulip season. To promote their product, therefore, tulip growers set up a tulip garden early in the morning where visitors put together a bouquet of their favorite colors to their heart’s content in the afternoon. But not too bad: everyone had a limit of twenty pieces. That is why tulip fans got a biodegradable bag at the entrance to the garden that could hold exactly twenty.