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Tiel

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Tiel
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Area - Land - Water	34,84 km² 32.31 km² 2.54 km²
Population (2005) - Density	40,558 1,255/km²

Tiel is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge river on the south and the north side, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal on the east side. The city was founded in the 5th century AC

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Population centres

Kapel-Avezaath
Tiel
Wadenoijen

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The town of Tiel

Tiel is the biggest town in the area called Betuwe, which is famous for being one of the centres for Dutch fruit production (apples, pears, some plums and cherries). It once housed a famous Dutch jam-factory called 'De Betuwe' (now torn down for the most part) and still retains a jam-factory-museum.

Every year in September, a festival called fruitcorso is held, to celebrate the harvest of the fruit of all the villages in the Betuwe area. It includes a parade of cars which are decorated with fruit.

Tiel has also been known for its pewter industry. The last pewter factory annex museum, which mainly produced curiosities for tourists, went bankrupt early in 2004. A rescue attempt succeeded! Tiel can be a good starting point to explore the rest of the Betuwe, particularly in May when all the fruit-trees in the surrouding areas are in bloom.

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