My Top 10 Choices in Netherlands
My Top 10 Choices in Netherlands
The Hague Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit The Hague? Check out our The Hague Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in The Hague.
Top Places to visit in The Hague:
The Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, Louwman Museum, Panorama Mesdag, Escher in the Palace, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Landgoed Clingendael, The Peace Palace, Binnenhof & Ridderzaal, Lange Voorhout, Haagse Bos, AFAS Circustheater Den Haag, Madurodam, Skyview De Pier, Westbroekpark, museum Beelden aan Zee
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The Hague, Netherlands, City Tour
The Hague is the second most-visited city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam because it's a city with many attractions and a large pedestrian zone where you can wander about in old historic lanes.
Although Amsterdam is the nation's capital, almost all of the government is headquartered here with the parliament, and the prime minister and perhaps most famous as home of the International Court of Justice, a branch of the United Nations.
This video is a practical guide for you showing exactly where are the main sites and where you should be walking to catch all of the highlights in your visit.
You might think of the Hague as perhaps a modern city, as a government city and therefore maybe not so interesting to visit, but you'll find that it's fascinating. The Hague has got a rich collection of historic buildings, some of them dating back as much as to the 13th century, amazingly, and they have been restored and renovated and kept up to date. The government is located in this complex of very old buildings in the heart of town. And yet there's also a modern side to the city, a modern shopping mall, ultramodern skyscrapers and that wonderful pedestrian zone. So altogether you'll find The Hague has got a lovely variety of kinds of neighborhoods and attractions, historic sites, shopping areas, museums, and just friendly people everywhere, and everywhere, bicycles.
The two closest main cities are Delft and Leiden, both of which make a good home base for visiting The Hague on a day trip, only 15 minutes away by train.
Feel Keukenhof Spring Gardens and Tulip Fields
Take a tour to the Keukenhof and its surrounding flowerfields:
This colourful tour takes us through the outstanding flower fields in the region of the Keukenhof, the worlds largest flower garden. Inside, you'll have enough time to admire the world-famous display of flowers and plants at your ease.
There are about seven million different bulbs planted each year, including a wide variety of tulips, hyacinths, orchids, daffodils, lilies and crocuses. Especially the tulip displays are breathtaking: there are more than 700 different varieties.
When spring has sprung, your thoughts may be turning towards gardening. If you are in the market for tulips, the best place to buy them - or just to see them - is the tulip fields of Keukenhof in Holland. These huge gardens are the largest and most spectacular flower gardens in the world - from March to May every year they are a sea of multicolored tulips stretching over the flat Dutch landscape as far as the eye can see.
Today, more then a million people visit Keukenhof each year to marvel at the spectacle of endless fields of tulips - making it the most popular tourist attraction in Holland, and one of the most photographed sights in Europe. Keukenhof has almost become a sort of horticultural theme park, with restaurants, shops, exhibitions and a children's play area.
The outdoor tulip collections also feature different designs and landscaping ideas ranging from traditional to innovative. There are several large indoor pavilions where you can while away the day in case of inclement weather. Keukenhof is still primarily a showplace for commercial bulb growers, and though you are not obliged to buy anything, you will find many opportunities to spend your money. Over 90 different bulb growers offer their expertise - and their merchandise - at Keukenhof.
The bulb fields at Keukenhof are situated in the town of Lisse, the heart of Holland's bulb growing country, easily reachable from Amsterdam in about 1 hour by a bus tour. The park is open from mid March until mid May every year. The bulbs usually flower sometime around late April or early May, making this the best time to visit. In 2012 the Keukenhof is opened from the 22th of march till the 20th of may.
Go to to start feeling Amsterdam!
Filmed by Enzo Angilletta
HOLLAND: Kinderdijk -19 Dutch windmills [HD]
A network of 19 windmills was built around 1740 to drain the polder of Kinderdijk and surrounding polders. (Polders are areas of land below sea level that are protected by dikes.)
The windmilles stand in neat rows along an L-shaped drainage canal, where they pumped water from the surrounding polders, until steam and electric pumps offered more reliable protection against flooding.
This group of mills is the largest concentration of windmills in the Netherlands. And nowhere in the world you will find as many windmills as near the village of Kinderdijk.
The foundation Wereld Erfgoed Kinderdijk maintains and preserves the windmills in Kinderdijk. The preservation is not limited to the windmills themselves, but also covers the area in which the windmills are situated.
The windmilles were placed on the list of UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
The Kinderdijk windmill area is situated in the Alblasserwaard between the rivers Lek and Merwede, about 25 kilometres from Rotterdam.
The 19 windmills at Kinderdijk symbolise the way in which the Dutch have managed the water. For centuries, they have kept the land dry, which had been ravaged by subsidence and floods.
July 7, 2010
Discover the royal city of The Hague
Hotel Des Indes is nestled in the heart of the city at the edge of a well known leafy square (Lange Voorhout). The surrounding buildings make up the government and diplomatic district, which is quite vast in The Hague, since the city is home to a wide variety of international organisations and peacekeeping forums. History comes to life in antique shops, world-renowned museums, and centuries-old theatres dotted all over the city, but especially in the beautiful areas neighboring Hotel Des Indes. A unique insight into the Royal Dutch city of The Hague, brought to you by Hotel Des Indes.
Riding in the tulip-fields in Holland
Memorable spring ride about the tulip-fields near Amsterdam. There is no better place for riding than the Netherlands.
Music: Tulpen uit Amsterdam by Herman Emmink
Trip to Keukenhof
Saturday April 25th 2009. Me and all my classmates were travelling to Keukenhof (the most beautiful spring garden in the world). What a wonderful moment! precious and unforgettable. And there was also a flower parade as well. Lucky me! Here are some pictures of tulips that I took during the trip. Enjoy!
A trip through the wonderful world of flowers
During a stay in Holland I visited Breezand, a small village in the Northern part of Holland which every year in the springtime is dressed up in a sea of flowers. Then driving from there through the tulip fields I will reach Keukenhof, the famous annual flower show. All together it is nothing less than a delightfull experience.
Netherlands First Musium Castel Doorwerth Castle
Castle Doorwerth is one of the oldest castles in Holland, boasting a history that stretches back as far as the 12th century, and is absolutely worth a visit. Not only for the three excellent museums that it houses, but also because of the beautiful building, the century-old trees and its unique surroundings.
Castle Doorwerth is located on the banks of the Rhine River, between Wageningen and Arnhem. The castle’s immediate surroundings are beautiful; it is located at the point where the steep wooded lateral moraine of the Veluwezoom merges into the broad floodplains of the Lower Rhine. In between the two geological areas lies the beautiful medieval castle, surrounded by abundant moats. The castle is mentioned in historical documents dating back as far as 1260, making it one of the oldest castles in Holland.
The oldest tree in Holland
Since 1280, the castle has grown to become a picturesque complex of buildings with a ward and an outer ward. During the Second World War, the castle suffered major damage, and after undergoing restorations for a period of 37 years, it is once again the beautiful water castle it used to be.
One of the oldest trees in Holland is also located on the Castle Doorwerth grounds. The trunk of the Robinia (acacia) tree has a circumference of seven meters (almost 23 feet), and was planted around the year 1600. Two similar trees were destroyed during the Battle of Arnhem.
Activities at Doorwerth
The castle’s impressive great hall is available for small receptions, events and wedding celebrations. The tearoom in the outer ward and the restaurant in the coach house are also available for these types of receptions. The ward houses three museums: the castle museum with its beautifully decorated rooms, the Veluwezoom Museum, and the Nederlands Jachtmuseum (museum for wild game management).