Johan de Witt was hung on this square, along with his brother Cornelis. The event was immortalised by Alexandre Dumas the Elder in the first chapter of The Black Tulip . A statue of Johan de Witt stands in the middle of the square to commemorate the..

This hospice, built at the beginning of the 17th Century, is a charming enclosure of low houses, themselves surmounted by stepped dormers. The philosopher Spinoza ended his days at number 74, and his statue stands opposite the house.

This large brick church was built around 1450. Today it is used as a venue for trade and cultural events. There is a peal of 51 bells in the tower. The church has three naves of equal height, roofed with a timber vault. In the choir, which was built ..

Louis Napoleon financed the construction of this church for the French-speaking protestant community of the Hague. These protestants were the descendants of persecuted Huguenots and before the 19th Century they worshipped in a chapel in the castle. N..

With the Leidsestraatweg running through it, this wood surrounds the Huis ten Bosch Royal Palace, the backdrop for a famous peace conference held here in 1899.

This palace was built in the 17th Century by Pieter Post for Amalia de Solms, widow of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange. This is where the first Conference for Peace was held in 1899. Huis ten Bosch is occupied today by Queen Beatrix.

This museum on the Prinsessegracht contains the Baron Westreenen's collections. The ground floor is generally given over to an exhibition of books. In the library, on the first floor, there are manuscripts and incunabula from the Medieval period...

The Palace of Peace was inaugurated on August 28 1913, a year before the start of the First World War. The architect, Cordonnier, came from Lille in France. First created to house the permanent Court of Arbitration, it was taken over in 1922 by the p..

Formerly a piece of privately owned parkland, St Annalands Clingendael is a huge green space made up of shaded meadowlands and numerous ponds. It is relaxing and peaceful, full of a specially beautiful light on some fine days, and also has a charming..

This modern, didactic museum has displays relating to the Earth's origins, to geology, biology, and ethnology, as well as to technology and physics. Everything anyone ever wanted to know about volcanoes, mountains, plains, oceans, earthquakes, plate ..

The Convention Centre, built to designs by J.J.P. Oud, was completed by his son in 1968. It is an enormous complex with walls surfaced in yellow bricks and sky-blue tiles, topped with a 17 storey triangular tower. On the north side, the red and blue ..

This amphitheatre, also a planetarium, has a giant screen covering an area of 840 m², which easily carries the spectator into the world of science, astronomy and flight. Two projection systems (Omnimax 70 mm and the computerised planetary projector D..

This park is surrounded by ponds (where boating is possible) and is famous for its rose garden, the venue for an annual international show. It is a very pleasant place to wander, with its beautiful flowers and plants, its peaceful atmosphere and its ..