it is the only province in the netherlands which has hills. it is a very old province; the capital city, maastricht, is over 2000 years old. the limburgish people do speak dutch, but they also speak their own dialects called limburgish. these dialects - especially the ones in the south of limburg, the normal dutch people find difficult to understand. these dialects have many influences from german and french. the limburgish are renowned for their famous vlaai.