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Sea, palaces and world-famous paintings. Ten questions about the elegant city on the North Sea coast.
Sandcastle builder 0–4 · Museum hopper 5–8 · True Hague insider 9–10
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Scheveningen is a district of The Hague right on the North Sea, with a pier that stretches out over the waves. Zandvoort is a popular beach too, but it lies near Haarlem in North Holland.
Photo: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Peace Palace opened in 1913. Most of the money to build it came from the American businessman Andrew Carnegie, who gave 1.5 million dollars.
Photo: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
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The girl with the big pearl and the blue-and-yellow turban is the star of the Mauritshuis. The Milkmaid is by Vermeer too, but it hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Photo: Johannes Vermeer, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Madurodam shows famous Dutch buildings, canals and windmills at 1:25 scale. It is named after George Maduro, a brave student from Curaçao, and the money it makes goes to charity. The fairy-tale forest is at the Efteling.
Photo: Gellerj, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Escher in The Palace is housed in a palace on the Lange Voorhout that was once the winter home of Queen Emma. It has a special room where grown-ups suddenly look smaller than their children.
Photo: Escher in het Paleis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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They are named after Baron Hendrik Hop, who loved coffee. The story goes that his sweet, creamy coffee was left on the heater and turned thick, and a local confectioner turned the idea into a sweet.
Photo: Sir James, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The Ridderzaal was built in the 1200s, and the big hall with its two towers is still standing after more than 700 years. Binnenhof simply means 'inner court'.
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'Haag' is an old word for a hedge, enclosure or hunting ground. The counts of Holland had their court here. Most people simply say Den Haag, and so do the road signs.
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Mondrian was still working on it in New York a few days before he died in 1944. Its famous cousin, Broadway Boogie Woogie, hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Photo: Piet Mondrian, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The Hague grew as big as a city, but in the Middle Ages it never received city rights. It only officially became a city in 1806, when Louis Bonaparte, a brother of Napoleon, granted them. Its big St James's Church, on the other hand, had been there since the Middle Ages.
Photo: Charles Howard Hodges, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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