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Voorhout Street in the center of the Old Town is considered the most beautiful in The Hague. Its length is about 470 m, the street runs parallel to the Hofwijwer Lake and ends with the Langhe Voorhaut Palace, where the Escher Museum is now located. The promenade in the center of Lange Voorhaut is extremely quiet and quiet for the street of the European metropolis. Here are planted in four rows of old lindens, which are already over 475 years old. It is well lit by lamps with golden crowns: every September, the ruling monarch goes to the streets to speak.

Today Kloosterkerk is known as a church where Queen Beatrix is ​​sometimes present at the services (and where, by the way, D. Fahrenheit, inventor of the corresponding thermometer )

The history of the street begins as early as the 14th century, when the government of the country was modernized, and new buildings needed new departments . Until then the street was surrounded by farm buildings, but now lawyers and politicians began to settle here, the first city castles of the nobility and t . . For a long time, Voorhout Street remained the main transport terminal of The Hague: all those who left / drove through the city were moving through it, wagons were stationed there and unloaded, so that not only rich and noble persons, but also common squawks, blacksmiths and wheelboys .

During the Napoleonic rule, the street was named for some time.

Today Voorhout street is built up mainly by Renaissance mansions of the 18th or 19th centuries, but built in style of the previous century . Bolshaya some of them are considered to be national monuments . There are a lot of government buildings and architectural monuments on the street, which are worth a visit. . So, house number 4 is Kloosterkerk, a monastery church built in 1397 . During many centuries during transformation from Catholic to Protestant, it has undergone various changes, but huge lancet windows still decorate the construction . Nowadays Kloosterkerk is known as a church where sometimes Queen Beatrix is ​​present at the services (and where, by the way, the fender D . Fahrenheit, the inventor of the appropriate thermometer) .

The building of the Supreme Court of the country stands a little further, occupying a beautiful palace in the house number 34. Other notable institutions on the Langa Voorhaut - is the art institute Pulkhri studio, Michelin restaurant " Saur "and embassies of several countries. A monument to Prince Bernard Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was erected in the south-eastern part of the street in 1864.

Artists, it seems, from all over the world are arriving on the weekend on the street.

Practical information

You can get to the street from the central station of the city even on foot, it's only a kilometer of the way. Or get to the stop of Korte Voorhout (trams No. 7, 15, 17 and 29) and move through the park.