Places to visit in South Holland, Netherlands
21 places to visit in South Holland, Netherlands, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Kinderdijk Windmills, Van Nelle Factory, Binnenhof and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your South Holland volume.
2 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 10 Famous places to visit · 9 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in South Holland (2)
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Kinderdijk Windmills
A group of 19 monumental windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder in South Holland. Most were built around 1740 to keep the low land drained, and they are the best known windmill landscape in the country and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Van Nelle Factory
A former tea, coffee and tobacco factory on the Schie in Rotterdam, built between 1925 and 1931 to a design by Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. Its glass curtain walls make it a leading example of modernist and functionalist architecture, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Famous places to visit in South Holland (10)
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Binnenhof
A complex of buildings beside the Hofvijver pond in The Hague, with parts dating from the 13th century. It is the meeting place of the Dutch parliament and includes the Ridderzaal, the Hall of the Knights, where the king opens the parliamentary year.
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Cube Houses
A set of tilted cube-shaped homes by the architect Piet Blom, built in Rotterdam and Helmond. They follow the idea of living as an urban roof, giving dense housing while leaving space at street level. The Rotterdam group stands above the Blaak area.
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Huis ten Bosch Palace
A royal palace in the woods on the edge of The Hague, built in the 17th century for Amalia of Solms. It is one of the official residences of the Dutch monarch and stands in a park with ponds and old trees.
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Keukenhof
One of the largest flower gardens in the world, in Lisse in South Holland. It opens for only about eight weeks each spring, when millions of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths come into bloom.
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Madurodam
A miniature park in Scheveningen in The Hague, opened in 1952. It shows Dutch towns, canals, windmills, castles and airports at a scale of 1 to 25, and it is named after a young soldier killed in the Second World War.
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Markthal
A horseshoe shaped building in Rotterdam with a food market under a huge arched hall. Queen Maxima opened it on 1 October 2014. Besides the market it holds 228 apartments and 4,600 square metres of shops and restaurants.
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Mauritshuis
A small art museum beside the Binnenhof in The Hague, housed in a 17th century mansion. It holds the Royal Cabinet of Paintings, including Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and works by Rembrandt.
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Noordeinde Palace
One of three official palaces of the Dutch royal family, in the city centre of The Hague. Since 2013 it has been the official workplace of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima. A garden and a statue of William the Silent stand nearby.
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Peace Palace
A neo Renaissance courthouse in The Hague, opened in 1913 with funding from Andrew Carnegie. It houses the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and it has a visitor centre.
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Scheveningen Beach
A seaside resort district of The Hague with a long sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier and a lighthouse. The beach is popular for water sports such as surfing and kitesurfing. It is the main beach of the city.
Hidden gems in South Holland (9)
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Burcht van Leiden
An 11th century shell keep built on a man made mound in Leiden. It stands where two branches of the Rhine, the Oude Rijn and the Nieuwe Rijn, meet. Today the round walls enclose a public park with views over the old town.
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Erasmus Bridge
A cable stayed and bascule bridge over the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam, completed in 1996. Its single tilted pylon has given it the nickname The Swan, and it links the city centre with the Kop van Zuid.
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Euromast
An observation tower in Rotterdam designed by Hugh Maaskant and built between 1958 and 1960 for the Floriade garden show. It is a concrete structure and has been a listed monument since 2010. Its viewing platform looks over the city and the port.
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Hortus Botanicus Leiden
The oldest botanical garden in the Netherlands and one of the oldest in the world. It lies in the south west of the historic centre of Leiden, between the Academy building and the old Leiden Observatory.
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Kunsthal
An art space in Rotterdam that opened in 1992. It has no permanent collection and instead hosts changing exhibitions of art, design, photography and culture. It stands in the Museumpark beside the Natural History Museum.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
An art museum in Rotterdam's Museumpark, named for its two main donors. Its collection runs from the Middle Ages to the present, with works by Bosch, Rembrandt and Van Gogh and a large design collection.
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Nieuwe Kerk Delft
A Gothic Protestant church on the Markt in Delft, opposite the town hall. It is the burial place of the House of Orange Nassau, where William the Silent was laid to rest after his murder in 1584, and its tower can be climbed.
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Oude Kerk Delft
A Gothic Protestant church in the old centre of Delft, nicknamed Oude Jan and Scheve Jan. Its 75 metre tower leans noticeably out of line, and the painter Johannes Vermeer is buried inside the church.
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Panorama Mesdag
A cylindrical painting of Scheveningen by Hendrik Willem Mesdag, more than 14 metres high and about 40 metres across. It is housed in a purpose built museum in The Hague. From a central platform viewers see the beach and dunes all around.
Collecting in South Holland
What are the best places to visit in South Holland?
LOQAH lists 21 places in South Holland. The best known include Kinderdijk Windmills, Van Nelle Factory, Binnenhof, Cube Houses and Huis ten Bosch Palace. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in South Holland?
21, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in South Holland?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in South Holland before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose South Holland and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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