A Spaniard travels to the European village where the houses share the same country

Every day, social media allows us to discover new realities without having to actually travel there. This is the case for content creators who either move to other countries and use digital platforms to share their discoveries, or those who travel to different corners of the globe, sharing tips and recommendations on what to do there.

Rama Jutglar , known as 'Ramilla de Aventura', is a Granada-born YouTuber famous for his travel videos to remote and extreme locations. He's originally from Órgiva, and his YouTube channel documents his adventures around the world.

In one of his latest posts, the influencer tours Baarle-Hertog , a town that straddles two countries at once. Located between the Netherlands and Belgium , it has the most complex border he's ever seen. "Thirty enclaves in a small town of 2,000 inhabitants. Geography geeks will love it," the content creator notes in a video titled: "The strangest town in Europe."

Baarle-Hertog has a couple of characteristics that make it unique. It is divided into 22 separate plots, spread between the town center and the surrounding countryside. Within some Belgian plots, there are smaller plots belonging to Baarle-Nassau , Baarle-Hertog's Dutch "twin." In other words, there is Dutch territory within Belgian territory, within Dutch territory.

The content creator arrives there by bus from Breda, a Dutch town. "There are Belgian streets and Dutch ones. On Google Maps, you can see that I'm in the first enclave of Belgium, while other buildings already belong to the Netherlands. Each building has the corresponding country's flag. It's really crazy," he describes in the video, in which he emphasizes that he's constantly crossing a border on foot.

The border problem originates in the Middle Ages , when plots of land were divided among different local aristocratic families. Baarle-Hertog belonged to the Duke of Brabant, while Baarle-Nassau was owned by the medieval Nassau family. When Belgium declared independence from the Netherlands in 1831, the two countries ended up in a border dispute.

The borders were not actually fixed until 1995, when the last remaining part of the country was attributed to Belgium.

"Every lamppost reminds you which country you're in; street numbers and license plates are shared out," explains Jutglar in a 20-minute recording. "Holland, Holland, Holland, and now Belgium, Belgium, Belgium... the bike lane here is the border; and here they've put a bench so you can literally sit between two countries. I have one foot in each country," the Spaniard explains descriptively.

The young man follows his route through Google Maps and the streets, using the different locations he sees on his mobile device to differentiate the nation he's set foot in at any given time. "Distances to different locations in Europe," the content creator says in surprise as he stops at a sign indicating other curious border crossings around the world: Cooch-Behar (Bangladesh and India), Llívia (Spain and France), and Bir Tawil (Egypt-Sudan) .

Most of the cars, as seen in the footage, are from the Netherlands, and city life revolves around the city center, as seen in the video uploaded to YouTube. Jutglar shows off all the curiosities in this corner , one of the strangest in Europe. "The border can be the end of one building and the beginning of another; the store is in Belgium, and the hotel-restaurant is in the Netherlands," the star of this video emphasizes. "If you're even slightly distracted, if someone asks you, you won't know what country you're in," the influencer comments.