Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in The Hague, Netherlands

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 10 km
Ascend 131 m
Descend 126 m

Explore The Hague in Netherlands with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in The HagueIndividual Sights in The Hague

Sight 1: 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 for Queen Emma is located in Benoordenhout in The Hague, in the Rosarium on Joseph Israëlsplein. The monument was founded in memory of the Dutch Queen Regent Emma (1858-1934).

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

782 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: 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)

1136 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 3: Oorlogsmonument 'Dwangarbeiders'

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Forced Labourers is a war memorial in The Hague. It is located in the courtyard of the Provincial Government House. At the time, it was the site of The Hague Zoo, where men were brought together in the zoo building during a raid in 1944.

Wikipedia: Dwangarbeiders (monument) (NL)

539 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Malieveld

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Malieveld is a large grass field in the city center of The Hague, Netherlands, located opposite the central train station. The field is widely known in the Netherlands for being the location of many large-scale demonstrations. It is also used for festivals, funfairs, concerts and other big events.

Wikipedia: Malieveld (EN)

824 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 5: 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)

443 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Louis Couperus Museum

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The Louis Couperus Museum is a museum located in the Archipelbuurt neighbourhood of The Hague. The museum celebrates the life and work of the Belle Époque writer Louis Couperus.

Wikipedia: Louis Couperus Museum (EN), Website

293 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Damesleesmuseum

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The Women's Reading Museum is a private library in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Damesleesmuseum (NL), Website

69 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: 'Bevrijdingsmonument Irene'

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The Irene Monument is the liberation monument of The Hague.

Wikipedia: Irenemonument (NL)

512 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Vrijmetselarij Museum

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The Cultural Masonic Center '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 GrandOost of the Netherlands. The center manages the collection that the Dutch Freemasons have brought together in more than 250 years.

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

273 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: 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

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: '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)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Constantyn Huygens

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Constantyn Huygens

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

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Constantijn Huygens (NL)

568 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: 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

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: 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

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Richard Hol

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Richard Hol

The Richard Hol memorial monument was founded in 1906 in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Gedenkmonument Richard Hol (NL)

121 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: 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

704 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 17: Catshuis

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CatshuisMinister-president Rutte from Nederland (+31) / CC BY 2.0

The Catshuis, initially known as Huis Sorgvliet, is the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Built between 1651 and 1652 for Jacob Cats as private villa, it was renamed after him after his death.

Wikipedia: Catshuis (EN), Website

966 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 18: Maranathakerk

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The Maranathakerk is a Dutch Reformed Church on the Second Sweelinckstraat in The Hague. The church was built in 1949 on a site that was broken down by the Atlantic Wall, a defence work by the Germans against possible Allied attacks in World War II. Maranata is an expression in the New Testament, meaning 'Our Lord, Come!'.

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

1415 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 19: Dr. Abraham Schierbeek Tuin

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The Dr. Abraham Schierbeek Garden is a bird garden in The Hague.

Wikipedia: Dr. Abraham Schierbeek Tuin (NL)

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