The Holland Festival is the most aged and largest performing arts festival every June in Amsterdam. It includes theatre, music, opera, and modern dance.

The shows occur in Amsterdam venues such as the city theatre, the opera, the Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw concert halls, and the Westergas factory site. The event features contemporary work and classical pieces presented with a modern edge.

Amsterdam Gay Parade is one of the famous gay pride festivals that is the largest globally and is celebrated publicly in the most extravagant fashion. Thousands of people in Amsterdam jam the city's streets with colorful banners and confetti and parade through the central pathways in Amsterdam.

It is one of the top festivals in the Netherlands, and the main highlight of this event is "Canal Parade," where several colorful and well-decorated boats cruise via the canals in the city.

One of the significant festivals in the Netherland, King’s Day, celebrates the birth of King Willem-Alexander with street parades, dance parties, and live music on 27th April. It is one of the largest festivals in the Netherlands, thousands of people of all ages flock to central Amsterdam, where colorful boat parties decorate the 17th-century canals, and live bands perform along the streets of Rembrandtsplein and Prinsengracht.

During special King’s Day, the city is packed with orange; everything is orange, from shirts, pants, and dresses, to wigs, hair ties, and face paint. There’s also a Vrije Markt (free market), where you can shop for second-hand goods and Dutch delicacies during the event. 

The Amsterdam Dance Event, most commonly called ADE, is a five-day electronic music conference that starts on Wednesday and lasts until Monday, and is held annually in mid-October.

The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation offers a complete exciting program of daytime conferences that features over 1,000 events and 2,500 renowned artists over five days in 200 clubs and venues. The most significant event is the Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF) in the Johan Cruyff Arena on Saturday night.

ADE draws over 400,000 people worldwide, making Amsterdam one of the most dynamic clubbing cities globally.

The Rotterdam Summer Carnival is one of the famous and most significant Latin American festivities in Europe. Street parades of thousands of Latin dancers, brass bands, and colorful floats take over the streets during the day. 

The streets are packed with food vendors running from Friday night to Saturday night. The guests can enjoy live music performances played on two stages in the city center at night. The other main highlight of the event is the Battle of the Drums.

The magnificent Grachtenfestival (Canal Festival), held annually in August on and around Amsterdam’s canals, is one of the cultural highlights of the Amsterdam summer.

The Amsterdam Canal Festival is a 10-day event celebrating the city’s UNESCO-listed canals. It hosts over 150 classical music concerts held at Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht (Prince Canal), from concert halls and museums to canal homes and cruise ships. 

A highlight of the Amsterdam Canal Festival is the Prinsengracht Concert, held on a pontoon near the Pulitzer Hotel.  

The Amsterdam Canal District is the famous 17th-century district surrounding the Binnenstad of Amsterdam. As large parts of this lovely, historic neighborhood were built during the Dutch Golden Age, its boundaries contain many additional monuments, including Anne Frank Huis, Westerkerk, and Museum van Loon.

The entire district is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unique cultural and historical value, and its property values are among the highest in the country.

The Rijksmuseum is the stunning National Museum in Amsterdam that has displayed rare art and antiquities since 1809. It collected millions of excellent artworks, including 5,000 outstanding paintings by notable painters of history displayed in more than 250 rooms, as well as a vast library with some fantastic 35,000 books.

Apart from its exceptional collection of old masters, this stunning museum offers an exhaustive account of the development of art and culture in The Netherlands and is especially rich in traditional Dutch handicrafts, medieval sculpture, and modern art. 

Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum holds the most extensive Van Gogh paintings globally and preserves thousands of other items associated with the artist and his contemporaries. 

Amsterdam's remarkable Van Gogh Museum is ranked an impressive #2 in a top list of the leading art museums globally, attracting almost 1.5 million visitors each year. The museum also regularly hosts temporary exhibitions dedicated to certain aspects of Vincent Van Gogh's life and career.

Located in the Maritime District, the Oude Haven, with its captivating historic ships, is a famous place among Rotterdammers to eat, drink, and dance. Noah's terrace was voted the best cocktail bar in the Netherlands. During the summer season, the terraces are packed until the late hours.

Oude Haven is excellent for those who enjoy seeing the sights on foot. The harbor is loaded with old houseboats and sailing ships, many on display at Rotterdam's Maritime Museum.

Madurodam is a beautiful miniature park and a significant tourist attraction in The Hague, Netherlands. The park is located in the Scheveningen district of the city and features tiny 1:25 scale model replicas of the most famous Dutch castles, industrial projects, and public buildings. 

Madurodam first opened its doors on July 2, 1952, and has seen more than 50 million visitors since that day. It was initially established as a monument to the resistance hero George Maduro. This miniature city receives more than half a million visitors each year.

A UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Windmills of Kinderdijk were also family homes and were practical buildings. Three of the windmills at Kinderdijk have been designated as Museummolens (museum mills), where it’s possible to go inside and see how the mill families lived.

These picturesque windmills make for a fun excursion for those in Rotterdam during their Netherlands stay.

De Hoge Veluwe National Park covers about 13,800 acres; this national park is the most extensive continuous nature reserve in the country and is one of the most famous day trip destinations for locals and tourists alike. The beautiful park featuring dense woodlands in the north and a fascinating sculpture park was once a country estate and hunting reserve and is home to many red and roe deer.

The best-preserved part of the park encompasses an area of dramatic dunes interspersed with heath and woodland and interrupted in the south and east by moraines up to 100 meters high. It's also a famous area for bird-watching and hiking and biking. 

 One of the most beautiful places to visit in the Netherlands, Keukenhof, otherwise known as the "Garden of Europe," is situated on the outskirts of the town of Lisse in what's widely considered the "bulb belt" of the Netherlands.

Keukenhof is widely known for its varieties of tulips; it also features numerous other flowers, including hyacinths, daffodils, lilies, roses, carnations, and irises. The most extensive public garden globally boasts more than 70 acres, and roughly 7 million flower bulbs are planted in the gardens annually.

One of the best museums in the Hague, Netherlands, Mauritshuis, houses one of the largest and most important collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings globally since the early 19th century, featuring several unbelievably essential pieces such as Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

The museum is a veritable masterpiece housed inside a 17th-century mansion designed by Jacob van Campen, whose portfolio also includes Amsterdam’s Royal Palace.