Rotary Club Deventer - Deventer NL - Rotary International Markers on Waymarking.com

This plaque has an image of De Waag on the Brink in Deventer.
The text reads:
The Waag.
Late Gothic dare built from 1528 to 1533, in 1644 provided with a renaissance platform with stairs.
The weighing of merchandise played an important role in the city's income'.
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The plaques donated by the Rotary Club Deventer can be admired, read and felt.
Especially for the blind, the text on the plaques is also in Braille.

There are 9 plaques around the model (visit link) .
This makes Deventer the first city in the world with so many plaques around the model.
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Purpose of the project:

Since 2008, the Rotary Club Deventer has been raising funds and carrying out a project that allows people who are partially sighted or blind to form an idea about the shape of our city. And the project gives tourists and locals a better view on our history.
Source: (visit link)

Plaque or monument: Plaque Placed by?: Rotary Club Deventer

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