In the Netherlands there is a long tradition of not zashtorivat window.

There are a lots of different assumptions about its origin. Someone said that the curtains banned Spaniards and recalls the Inquisition, the other that the Dutch can not hide the interior. The author decided to investigate and found that the veracity goes back to antiquity.

In the mid-16th century governor of the Spanish Netherlands was appointed cruel Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba. In 4 short years of his leadership was executed more than 18 thousand civilians. Among the many tyrannical orders of the Duke, was a ban on the closed curtains of the window, because the Dutch are often staged home workshop for the production of weapons and conducted a revolutionary assembly. After some time, the king of Spain withdrew the album from the Netherlands, the revolution triumphed, but the tradition has remained in the new reading: now the Dutch are proud that they have nothing to hide and their way of life corresponds to the Christian conception of morality.

Whatever it was, it is now one of the striking features that ultimately, put a unique impression of the Netherlands.