Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Leiden, Netherlands

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is a modern, now traditionalist Catholic church in the Dutch city of Leiden. The church was built in 1961 by order of the Apostolic Society. The church, located on the Sumatrastraat in Leiden's De Kooi district, was designed by A. Dekker and P. van der Sterre and is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary. The church is served by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X, a traditional movement within the Catholic Church.

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Museum Het Leids Wevershuis consists of one of the last remaining "weavers' homes" in Leiden, Netherlands. Built around 1560, the exterior, the large antique loom (1830) and the interior, are testimony of the once flourishing textile industry around Leiden, in particular during the 16th and 17th century, when many home weavers supplied the draper's guild with high quality woolen cloth.

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François Houttijnshof is a courtyard in the Dutch city of Leiden. The courtyard is located on Hooigracht 81 and contains 9 houses. In 1736 it was decided to found the courtyard, the completion was a year later. It has a sober entrance and a stone with inscription 1737.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church in the Dutch city of Leiden. The church is located at Hooglandse Kerkgracht 26. The building dates from 1618, making it the oldest church building built for Protestant service in the city.

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The Hooglandse Kerk is a Gothic church in Leiden. Its earliest parts date back to the last quarter of the fourteenth century. Most of the current structure dates from the fifteenth century. The brick church was dedicated to St. Pancras and today serves parishioners of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

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The Schachtenhof is a courtyard in the Dutch city of Leiden, in the province of South Holland. The courtyard is located on the Middengracht. The Schachtenhof was founded in 1664 in the name of the orphan boy Theunis Jacobsz. Van der Schacht. His will stated that a courtyard with 12 houses was to be built on the Middle Canal. He demanded that residents of 40 years and older should be allowed to live there for free and there was a preference for Van der Schacht's family members and residents who, like Van de Schacht, had grown up in the Orphanage of Leiden.

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The Roggebroodshof is a complex of originally four houses on a small square behind the Middelstegracht between nos. 21 and 23 in the Dutch city of Leiden.

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The Hof van Venice is a complex of originally twelve houses from 1898 on the Uiterstegracht in the Dutch city of Leiden.

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Sint Annahofje may refer to:Sint Annahofje (Haarlem), a former courtyard in Haarlem Sint Annahofje (Leiden), a courtyard in Leiden

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The Mierennesthofje is a courtyard in the city center of the Dutch city of Leiden.

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The Leiden American Pilgrim Museum is a small museum in the Dutch city of Leiden dedicated to the Pilgrim Fathers. These Separatists or English Dissenters were religious refugees who had fled England to Amsterdam in 1608 and moved to Leiden the next year. They lived and worked in that city for about 12 to 20 years. In 1620, their emigration began. They left Leiden by canal, going to Delfshaven where they embarked on the Speedwell, which took them to Southampton. But the Speedwell proved leaky and had to be sold, so they transferred to the Mayflower. The Mayflower undertook the famous voyage to New England in 1620 alone. In the 19th century the colonists' first harvest festival after their arrival at Plymouth Colony was identified as the origin of the annual Thanksgiving celebration in the United States.

Wikipedia: Leiden American Pilgrim Museum (EN), Website

The Burcht van Leiden is an old shell keep in Leiden constructed in the 11th century. It is located at the spot where two tributaries of the Rhine come together, the Oude Rijn and the Nieuwe Rijn. The structure is on top of a motte, and is today a public park.

Wikipedia: Burcht van Leiden (EN), Heritage Website

The Meermansburg on the Oude Singel / Oude Vest is the largest court in the Dutch city of Leiden. It was founded in 1680 by Maerten Meerman and his wife Helena Verburgh. The name is a contraction of the surnames of the founders.

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The Marekerk is a Protestant church in Leiden, located at the Lange Mare and the Oude Vest canal. The church can be easily seen from the Oude Vest and the Burcht van Leiden by its round dome.

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The Hartebrugkerk is a church in the Dutch city of Leiden. The church is part of the Parish of Saints Peter and Paul. Its official name is Our Lady Immaculate Conception. The church is named after the bridge of the same name in front of it. Among the people of Leiden, the church is also known as the Coeliekerk, after the last word of the Latin motto above the entrance, Hic Domus Dei est et Porta Coeli.

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Joseph Justus Scaliger was a Franco-Italian Calvinist religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands.

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Jan Pesijnhof is a courtyard in the Dutch city of Leiden.

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The Hortus botanicus of Leiden is the oldest botanical garden of the Netherlands, and one of the oldest in the world. It is located in the southwestern part of the historical centre of the city, between the Academy building and the old Leiden Observatory building.

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The Al Hera-Moskee is a mosque in the Dutch city of Leiden, which had been established since around 1982 at Rembrandtstraat 10. Because the building became too small for the Moroccan religious community, new construction was opened on the Ter Haarkade in 2018. The name Al Hera or Al Hidjra refers to the migration of Mohammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina in 622.

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d'Heesterboom is a sawmill in the Dutch city of Leiden. It belongs to the Top 100 of the National Monument Conservation Agency. The mill is located at the Noordman timber merchant on the Haagweg on a plot on the Oude Rijn/Galgewater. The mill has three saw frames. The middle window consists of a saw and scalloped frame.

Wikipedia: D'Heesterboom (NL)