LEIDEN IN COLOUR
There's not a lot to be seen of the inside of Kooijker booksellers in Breestraat from the outside; instead, we see the bust of a Turkish merchant on the façade of "In den Vergulden Turk" ("The Gilded Turk") across the street | |
The façade of the old latin school. Rembrandt van Rijn attended classes here | |
The last remaining part of the medieval town wall: wall tower "Oostenrijk" ("Austria") on the bank of the Zoeterwoudse Singel canal | |
The entrance of the Miss Maas almshouses on Kalvermarkt. Towering above it, the old flour factory, the biggest building of the eastern part of the inner city | |
The flour factory, as it can be seen from De Waard neighbourhood | |
Corn mill "De Put" at work; the flags of city and country are flying | |
Just like Portugal, the Netherlands also had a prince Henry the Navigator (18201879). So it was fairly logical that the nautical college for teacher training was named after him | |
On Trekvliet canal there is the villa "'t Kasteeltje" ("The Little Castle"). In 1913 it received an honourable mention in the city's façade competition | |
This is also Leiden, but in this case in one of the last pieces of countryside within the municipality. This barn is standing on the bank of a little canal linking Vrouwenvaart canal with the pumping-station of the Kleine Cronesteijnse or Knotter polder | |
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