The beautiful EU city as pretty as Amsterdam but with way less tourists

Leiden has been dubbed a (Image: Getty) Lying just 25 miles south of the iconic, and often crowded, city of Amsterdam , the Dutch city of Leiden is in the province of South Holland. In 2023, Amsterdam saw a surge in overnight tourists, with 9.4 million spending at least one night in the city.

However, with an area of 8.46 square miles of land, and 0.53 of water, as one travel blogger put it, Leiden is packed with Amsterdam-esque canals but without the Amsterdam-sized crowds .

During the Dutch Golden Era, Leiden was the second largest city of Holland after Amsterdam. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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