Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #6 in The Hague, Netherlands

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Number of sights 27 sights
Distance 11.1 km
Ascend 109 m
Descend 110 m

Experience The Hague in Netherlands in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in The HagueIndividual Sights in The Hague

Sight 1: Maranathakerk

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The Maranatha Church is a Dutch Reformed Church located in the Tweede Sweelinckstraat in The Hague. The church was built in 1949 on a site that lay fallow due to demolition work for the Atlantic Wall, a defensive structure of the Germans against possible Allied attacks in World War II. Maranata is an expression in the New Testament that means "Our Lord, Come!"

Wikipedia: Maranathakerk (Den Haag) (NL), Website

571 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 2: Christian Science

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Christian Science Sarah Nichols / CC BY-SA 2.0

Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote the 1875 book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which outlined the theology of Christian Science. The book became Christian Science's central text, along with the Bible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies.

Wikipedia: Christian Science (EN), Website

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Richard Hol

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Richard Hol

The Richard Hol memorial was erected in 1906 in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Richard Hol (NL)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Thomaskerk

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Thomaskerk Kristiyhteisö, Helsinki / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Christian Community is an esoteric Christian denomination. It was founded in 1922 in Switzerland by a group of ecumenically oriented, mainly Lutheran theologians and ministers, who were inspired by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy. They were led by liberal theologian Friedrich Rittelmeyer, who had been the most prominent representative of liberal Lutheranism in Germany during the First World War and whose early theological work had focused on the concept of a socially engaged "Christianity of deeds" (Tatchristentum).

Wikipedia: The Christian Community (EN), Website

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Gedenkmonument Jacob en Willem Maris

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The Jacob and Willem Maris memorial was erected in The Hague in 1916 in memory of the Maris brothers, both painters of the Hague School.

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Jacob en Willem Maris (NL), Website

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: De Mesdag Collectie

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The Mesdag Collection is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. It is managed by the Van Gogh Museum.

Wikipedia: The Mesdag Collection (EN), Website

353 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Beeld en Geluid Den Haag

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Beeld en Geluid Den Haag

Sound & Vision in The Hague is a Dutch interactive museum about life in the media. It is located at Zeestraat 82 in The Hague. Until 2019, the museum was known as COMM, previously also as the Museum for Communication and as the PTT Museum. In 2019, the museum was taken over by the Hilversum Sound and Vision and was renamed Sound and Vision The Hague. In 2022, the Sound and Vision Foundation The Hague and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision merged into 1 company, and will continue under the name Sound & Vision.

Wikipedia: Beeld en Geluid - Den Haag (NL), Website

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Panorama Mesdag

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Panorama Mesdag

Panorama Mesdag is a panorama by Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, the panorama is a cylindrical painting more than 14 metres high and about 40 metres in diameter. From an observation gallery in the centre of the room the cylindrical perspective creates the illusion that the viewer is on a high sand dune overlooking the sea, beaches and village of Scheveningen in the late 19th century. A foreground of fake terrain around the viewing gallery hides the base of the painting and makes the illusion more convincing.

Wikipedia: Panorama Mesdag (EN), Website

410 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Vrijmetselarij Museum

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The Cultural Masonic Centre 'Prins Frederik' (CMC) in The Hague, in the Dutch province of South Holland, is a museum, archive and library of the Order of Freemasons under the Grand Orient of the Netherlands. The centre manages the collection that the Dutch Freemasons have amassed over more than 250 years.

Wikipedia: Cultureel Maçonniek Centrum 'Prins Frederik' (NL), Website

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: 'Haags Verzets- en Bevrijdingsmonument'

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The Hague War Memorial 1940-1945 is a monument commemorating the Second World War opposite the Peace Palace on Carnegieplein in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Haags herdenkingsmonument 1940-1945 (NL)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: World Peace Flame

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The World Peace Flame has been burning in Wales since 1999. By spreading this flame worldwide, attention is drawn to world peace.

Wikipedia: Wereldvredesvlam (NL)

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Van Karnebeekbron

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The Van Karnebeekbron is a sandstone monument that commemorates the Carnegie Foundation and the opening of the Peace Palace in The Hague on 28 August 1913. It is a bench with a fountain, stands on the corner of Scheveningseweg and Carnegielaan and consists of three parts. The curved middle part is higher than the two side parts and has a lion's head in the middle from which spring water comes out. A frieze with text runs along its entire length. Willem C. Brouwer (1877-1933), founder of the factory Brouwer's Aardewerk NV (1915-1956), made the monument.

Wikipedia: Van Karnebeekbron (NL), Website

287 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Constantyn Huygens

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Constantyn Huygens

The memorial monument Constantijn Huygens was erected in Scheveningen in 1897.

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Constantijn Huygens (NL)

254 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Church of St. John & St. Philip

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The Church of St. John and St. Philip is an Anglican church building in The Hague, England. The priest's house is next door at the beginning of the Riouwstraat.

Wikipedia: Anglican Church of St. John and St. Philip (NL), Mapillary, Website

392 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 15: Scheveningse Bosjes

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The Scheveningse Bosjes is an original dune area and now a park in the Scheveningen district. The park is bordered by the Scheveningseweg on the southwest side, the Kerkhoflaan on the southeast side and Madurodam on the north side. The Prof. B.M. Teldersweg cuts the forest in half from Madurodam to the Scheveningseweg. On the sea side there is a large pond, the Water Feature.

Wikipedia: Scheveningse Bosjes (NL)

334 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Nationaal Bahá'í-centrum

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The first mentions of the Bahai belief in the Netherlands were in Dutch newspapers reporting on the number of events in 1852 with regard to the Bahai movement considered by the Bahai believers as a precursor-religion. In around 1904, the Algemeen Handelsblad, an Amsterdam newspaper, sent a correspondent to Persia to investigate the practitioners of this religion. The first Bahai believers who settled in the Netherlands were a few families-the Tijssens and Greens. Both families left Germany in 1937 when their affairs were hit by the Nazi policy. After the Second World War, the believers established a committee to oversee the spread of religion in Europe and so the permanent growth of the community in the Netherlands began, with Bahai pioneers who arrived in 1946. After their arrival and the joining of some Dutch people, the first local spiritual council of Amsterdam was elected in 1948. In 1962, when there were 110 believers and nine local spiritual councils, the Bahai community in the Netherlands chose its first national spiritual council. In 2005 the Netherlands had 34 local spiritual councils. In 1997 there were around 1500 believers in the Netherlands.

Wikipedia: Bahá'í-geloof in Nederland (NL), Website

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Vredeskapel

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The Peace Chapel is a former church building of the Reformed Congregation in the Malakkastraat (Archipel neighborhood) in The Hague. Since 2018, it has been converted into four residential units.

Wikipedia: Vredeskapel (Den Haag) (NL)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 18: Damesleesmuseum

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The Women's Reading Museum is a private library in The Hague, founded in 1894. It is the only surviving Dutch 'reading museum' for women and has a collection of more than 35,000 books. Since 1974, membership has also been open to men.

Wikipedia: Damesleesmuseum (NL), Website

69 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: 'Bevrijdingsmonument Irene'

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The Irene Monument is the liberation monument of The Hague.

Wikipedia: Irenemonument (NL)

144 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: 'Centraal Monument voor Gevallen PTT'ers'

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Nassauplein is a long rectangular square in the Archipel neighbourhood in The Hague with only 43 house numbers. There used to be a moat, but it was covered over in 1883. At the beginning of the 20th century, the water was filled in.

Wikipedia: Nassauplein (Den Haag) (NL)

558 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 21: Bosje van Repelaer

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In the 17th century, Landgoed Roosendoorn was a small estate just outside the ring of canals in The Hague. It was located north of the current Frederikstraat.

Wikipedia: Landgoed Rosendoorn (NL)

870 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 22: Koningin Regentes Emma van Waldeck Pyrmont

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Koningin Regentes Emma van Waldeck Pyrmont F.Eveleens / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Monument to Queen Emma is located in Benoordenhout in The Hague, in the Rosarium on Jozef Israëlsplein. The monument was erected in memory of the Dutch Queen Regent Emma (1858-1934).

Wikipedia: Monument voor koningin Emma (Den Haag) (NL)

655 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 23: Mubarak Mosque

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The Mubarak Mosque in The Hague is the first purpose-built mosque in the Netherlands. Its foundation stone was laid by Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan on 20 May 1955 who later inaugurated the mosque on 9 December 1955.

Wikipedia: Mubarak Mosque, The Hague (EN)

343 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 24: Landgoed Oostduin en Arendsdorp

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Arendsdorp is the remnant of an old estate and a country estate, located in the nationally protected cityscape of Benoordenhout in The Hague. A considerable part of the Benoordenhout district was built on parts withdrawn from this estate.

Wikipedia: Arendsdorp (NL)

374 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 25: Sint Paschalis Baylon

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The Sint-Paschalis Baylon Church on the Wassenaarseweg in The Hague, the school in the neighborhood is named after the church. The church was built between 1919 and 1921. The church is named after the Spanish saint Paschal Baylon.

Wikipedia: Sint-Paschalis Baylonkerk (NL), Url

902 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 26: Zonnewijzer

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Zonnewijzer

Sundial is a work of art by Albert Boeken in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Zonnewijzer (Albert Boeken) (NL)

1867 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 27: Louwman Museum

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Louwman Museum

The Louwman Museum is a museum for historic cars, coaches, and motorcycles in The Hague, Netherlands. It is situated on the Leidsestraatweg near the A44 highway. The museum's former names are "Nationaal Automobiel Museum" and "Louwman Collection".

Wikipedia: Louwman Museum (EN), Website

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