Madurodam

Madurodam is a miniature park in The Hague Scheveningen neighborhood and is considered one of the biggest tourist attractions in the Netherlands. The plant on an area of ​​approximately 18,000 m² includes over 300 models of important buildings, landscape clippings and technical objects of the country at a 1:25 scale; many are animated. The incurred in 1950 and officially opened in July 1952 the plant spouses Maduro wanted the memory of her son, who died in 1945 in the Dachau concentration camp Lieutenant George Maduro, honor.

Transferred sense

Since Madurodam in miniature stands as it were, Netherlands for an ideal world, the term is often used in Dutch politics in connection with alleged naivety. For instance, described the MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali the former mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, as " burgemeester van Madurodam " ( mayor of Madurodam ) because he was passing in his city, in their opinion, too naive against Islamist extremists.

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