The core as a whole, with its stately white houses, is a protected cityscape. The streets are paved with Maas cobblestones. The protected view covers an area of 61.3 hectares.
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Thorn was an independent state for more than eight hundred years, where female monks led by a queen abbess held sway. Count Ansfried founded a monastery for Benedictines at a …

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It became white during the French period, the French introduced a window tax that was calculated according to quantity and size, the poor population then walled up some of the windows to hide their poverty, and then the walls were whitewashed

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