Twin Towns: Baarle-Hertog (BE) & Baarle-Nassau (NL)
In my continuing quest for history and culture, I spend idle moments googling (an addiction we all think is normal) and discovering a plethora of sights and places, when I ran into this interesting website about the twin towns in the border of Belgium and the Netherlands. The twin towns and border pole (grenspaal) between Belgium and the Netherlands. These twin towns are said to be the most remarkable village in the world as there are 30 loose puzzle pieces of land tangled seamlessly with each other and under two sovereignty - Belgian and Dutch. Baarle-Hertog , the Belgian municipality has 22 loose bits of land in Baarle-Nassau, the Dutch municipality. Baarle-Nassau in turn has 8 loose bits of land in Baarle-Hertog. These bits and pieces of land are called enclaves. Here is a description of the sister towns I found from their official website: “No where else in the world is known of a municipality so extremely interwoven with a municipality of the neighbouring country. Thi...