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Zierikzee harbor

            The silhouette of Zierikzee has been making good impressions for six centuries and more. Many of the walls, gates, churches, towers and windmills of those long-gone days are still with us today, among them 500-plus monuments.

City rights
It was in 1248 that Zierikzee received its town charter. By the medieval era, it had acquired a strategic importance: between 1414 and 1576 fires reduced to partial or complete ashes several times.

The wars of the 20th centuries had their impact too. In WW1, an off-course British bomber dropped several bombs on Zierikzee, killing three citizens. In the decades after the Second World War, some 30 million kilos of munition were dumped in the (deep) Gat van Zierikzee in the Oosterschelde estuary – and remain there today.

Taken on: December 8, 2012

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/22.0, 1/20 sec, 15mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens:	12-24mm
Aperture:	f/22.0
Exposure Time:	0.05 sec (1/20)
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
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