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Must Visit Places in Hague

Travel Destination, Travel Tips - Shelia - January 31, 2016

Check out the following places and include it in your bucket list:

Madurodam

The smallest town within the Netherlands, Madurodam may be a 1:25 scale model of a Dutch town. It options ancient Dutch buildings and notable landmarks from round the country. Buildings, markets, canals, windmills, Schiphol Airport, the Port of Rotterdam, Dam Square, the Delta works are all absolutely replicated to the tiniest detail. Instead of being a static miniature town, Madurodam is really filled with life. The windmills turn, airplanes land at the airport, trains run through the park and therefore the boats are floating. fashionable each young and recent, It’s one among the foremost visited attractions within the Hague.

Madurodam

Panorama Mesdag

Panorama Mesdag has lots of wow! factor. It’s a big circular mural that’s fourteen meters (46 feet) high and over a hundred and twenty meters (280 feet) in circumference. It’s a painting of the ocean, dunes and therefore the village of Scheveningen because it was in 1881. it absolutely was pained by Hendrik Wilhelm Mesdag, One among the foremost vital painters from The Hague School. The mural is thus vast, a special building was constructed to house it. Panorama Mesdag is the oldest nineteenth century mural that’s still on the site it absolutely was designedon.

Mauritshuis

Mauritshuis Museum provides a tremendous chance to look at a number of the best paintings from the Dutch Golden Age of Painting. It’s home to 841 works by nice artists like Hans Holbein the Young, Frans Hals, Rubens (Night Scene), Rembrandt (Self-Portrait) and Vermeer. The repository is housed in a very seventeenth century Dutch Classicist house that belonged to a nobleman. This little known museum (outside the Netherlands, that is) attracts about a quarter million guest a year.Mauritshuis

Scheveningen Boulevard

Scheveningen Boulevard may be a wide boulevard that runs on the beach at Scheveningen, once a asleep fishing village and currently a sea-coast resort. One prime attraction is that the Scheveningen Pier, a promenade that dates back to the first twentieth century; these days, it’s an entertainment and shopping complex.The Kurhaus is also a must-see; it’s an outsized building that started as a bathhouse within the nineteenth century, and has since played host to far-famed individuals from Churchill to Bon Jovi. The Sculptures by the ocean focuses on international sculpture works. It is notable because it’s built underground instead of atop the sand dunes.

Binnenhof

BinnenhofBinnenhof may be a thirteenth century castle that produces a mighty spectacular home for the top government offices within the Netherlands. It’s where each houses of Parliament meet and homes the Ministry of General Affairs and also the office of the Dutch prime minister. Once a series of buildings that were joined along, Binnenhof is known as the oldest house of parliament within the world still in use these days. The gothic structure is found within the Hague’s city centre next to the Hofvijver ppond. In the center stands the Ridderzaal or Knight’s Hall, the centerpiece of the castle, today used for ceremonial purposes. The Knight’s Hall is accessible in guided tours.


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