House with Eyes. Brielle. Holland
by Jenny Rainbow
Title
House with Eyes. Brielle. Holland
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Jenny Rainbow
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Photograph - Photography
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House with Eyes. Brielle. Holland by Jenny Rainbow.
Brielle, also called Den Briel (Brill in English) is a town, municipality and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten, at the mouth of the New Maas. The municipality covers an area of 31.14 km2 of which 3.58 km2 (1.38 sq mi) is water. In 2014 its population was 16,306.
Brielle is a very old, fortified town. Its name is derived from the Celtic word brogilo (meaning "closed area" or "hunting grounds"). The oldest writings about Brielle indicate that the current location is the "new" Brielle. Den ouden Briel (Old Brill) must have been situated somewhere else on the Voorne-Putten Island. It received city rights in 1306. The city was for a long time the seat of the Count of Voorne, until this fiefdom was added to Holland in 1371. It had its own harbour and traded with the countries around the Baltic Sea. Brielle even had its own trading colony in Sweden.
("bril" is the Dutch word for -glasses. The same rhyme continues with the line Op April zes verloor Alva zijn fles -On April 6th Alva lost his bottle in which the word Fles stands for the town of Vlissingen, which was the next town to be caught by the Dutch rebels.)
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