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The Highland Games in Geldrop, where a badly thrown metal ball killed a passerby on Sunday, did not have a permit. And Landgoed Kasteel Geldrop, where the event happened, does not have a permanent event permit, Omroep Brabant reports. They assumed that the permanent event permit the Landgoed Kasteel Geldrop had would be sufficient, the spokesperson said. “The municipality did …

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Twenty years ago, Dutch couple Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker made history when they tied the knot in the world's first legally-recognised same-sex wedding in the Netherlands. "It's nicer to say to other people 'he's my husband, he's my man'," says Dolf, sitting next to Gert as they flip through an album of photos and newspaper clippings of the wedding, …

Kasteel de Haar near Utrecht is a fairytale castle with a jet set past

You may have never heard of Kasteel de Haar, but it’s the largest castle in the Netherlands, with a long and entertaining history. That’s when the Prince Bishop of Utrecht granted it to the Van de Haar family who established a fief on the property and built its first castle, which consisted of only a single tower. The castle and …