Delft

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Delft
The Netherlands
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Town Hall
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Market Square
Hugo Grotius Statue
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Old Church
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Old Church
The leaning tower
T he interior
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New Church
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Delft Canal
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Eastern Gates
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Old station
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New Church
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Museum Lambert van Meerten
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Meisjeshuis
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Delft market
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Technical University (TU Delft)
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TU Delft Faculty of Architecture
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The Prinsenhof (Princes Court) Entrance
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The garden of the Prinsenhof with statue of
Willem de Zwijger
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Molen de Roos (windmill)
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Water tower
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Plantagegeer Park
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Delft in spring
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Delft in winter
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Delft is a city and municipality in the province
of Zuid Holland (South Holland) close to
Rotterdam and Den Haag (The Hague). Around
100,000 people live in Delft. The city received
its city rights in the 13th century. The city is
situated on the Schie, which flows into the Meuse
at Delfshaven. The town was almost totally
destroyed by fire in 1536, and in 1654 it was
seriously damaged by the explosion of a
powder-magazine but it still possesses numerous
interesting buildings of the 16th century,
especially at the Wynhaven and in the Koornmarkt
and Voorstraat. Delft is primarily known for its
typically Dutch town centre (with canals), also
for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery
(Delftware), the Delft University of Technology,
and its association with the Dutch royal family,
the House of Orange-Nassau. The hotel De Mol of
the 15th century is one of the oldest buildings
in Delft. Stadhuis (City Hall) This early 17th
century building (1618) was built by Hendrick de
Keyser (who made the mausoleum of William the
Silent). Very typical for the buildings of the
early Dutch Republic, the decoration features
ferocious lions' heads. The City Hall
incorporates the stone tower of an earlier
medieval version of the city hall destroyed by
fire in 1618.
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Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) Originally built between
1383 and 1510. However, several disasters that
took place in the city of Delft (town fire in
1536 and the explosion of the gunpowder store in
1645 ) made restoration necessary. The present
tower was only added in 1872 by P.J.H. Cuyper.
The most important feature of the church is the
imposing mausoleum of William of Orange (called
The Silent). Hendrick de Keyser designed it in
1614. In the middle of the monument stands the
statue of William. In the crypt of the church are
the tombs of several other members of the Dutch
Royal Family, the House of Orange-Nassau. Oude
Kerk (Old Church) The church dates originally
from the 13th century, but was often redesigned
and redecorated. The richly decorated bell tower
dates from the 14th century. The Gothic Northern
transept was added in the 16th century by Antoon
Keldermans, a famous architect from the southern
Netherlands (now Belgium). The choir stalls are
remarkable. Inside the church are numerous tomb
stones, among which, the stones of the painter
Johannes Vermeer and Admiral Piet Heyn.
Meisjeshuis building, the old orphanage for
girls, reopened in spring 2005 after restoration.
It is now being used for a variety of purposes,
many of which ensure that a large part of the
building remains open to the general public.
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The Easten Gates were built in the beginning of
the 15th century and nowadays they are the only
city gates that left till our time. Their towers
are not so old they were overbuilt in the 16th
century. The Eastern Gates consist of the gates
built both on water and ground, which are
connected with walls. Nowadays the gates are used
as domicile and showroom. Delft University of
Technology (Dutch Technische Universiteit Delft,
also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest
Dutch public technical university. With eight
faculties and numerous research institutes it
hosts over 16,000 students (undergraduate and
postgraduate), more than 2,600 scientists(includin
g more than 200 professors), over 2,000 doctoral
students, and more than 2,000 people in the
support and management staff. The university was
established on January 8, 1842 by King William II
of the Netherlands as a Royal Academy, with the
main purpose of training civil servants for the
Dutch East Indies.

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Prinsenhof (Prince's Court) The Prinsenhof ("The
Court of the Prince") is an urban palace built in
the 15th century as a monastery. Later it served
as a residence for William of Orange, the Silent.
It was here that William of Orange (the Silent)
was murdered in 1584 by Baltasar Geraerts, a
fanatical catholic. The murder was ordered by
Philip II, the catholic king of Spain and the
Netherlands. The holes that were left in the
walls by the bullets that killed William are
still visible. After the restoration the
Prisenhof serves as the National Museum. The
museum contains an interesting collection of
paintings of Delft, medieval sculptures,
portraits of prominent figures of the Dutch
Revolt and, of course, delftware. The Water
Tower. The tower was built in 1895 in
neo-renaissance style, after a design of the city
council architect M.A.C. Hartman. It contains a
water reservoir of 600.000 litre water. Since the
1st of February 2008 the Water tower of Delft is
open to the public. The beautiful monument is
restyled into a water shop, meeting place and
viewpoint.

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Armamentarium (Army museum). The massive brick
building rising up from the water at the "Korte
Geer" street is the Armamentarium. It used to be
the military arsenal of the provinces of Holland
and West Friesland. The function of the building
is symbolically shown by the bearded statue of
the god Mars, the god of war. The arsenal was
built in 1692. All the military objects on
display (guns, uniforms, weapons) tell the
history of the Dutch army, from the Middle-Ages
until now. Oost-Indisch Huis (East India
House) The letters VOC on this renovated house
(1631) at the Oude Delft n 39 is a reminder that
Delft once was a seat of the Dutch East India
Company. The Mill de Roos was built in the 18th
century and at those times it was situated on the
city rampart.
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