The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
The Hague is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and has been described as the country's de facto capital since the time of the Dutch Republic, while Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands.
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Worth seeing in and around The Hague
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
The heart of the city contains most of the historic architecture from the medieval, renaissance, and Baroque periods and is easily accessible on foot. You'll also find lots of outdoor cafes and shopping near the Plein on the Lange Poten or just east of there on the Hofweg.
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Things to do
Since The Hague was founded on a former hunting manor, there are a variety of parks and green spaces that are ideal for exploration. Like the majority of cities in the Netherlands, The Hague is extremely bike friendly and it's easy to get from one place to another on a bicycle if you feel like stepping outside the city centre.
- 01Park Clingendael
Japanese Garden: late April to mid-June and 2 weeks in mid-October.
- 02Westbroekpark
Renowned for its Rosarium or rose garden, with 20,000 different varieties of roses blooming from June until November.
- 03Haagse Bos
This park is the oldest forested area in the country.
- 04Museon
Stadhouderslaan 37 (next to the Gemeentemuseum), info@museon.nl.
- 05Omniversum
President Kennedylaan 5 (behind the Museon), info@omniversum.nl.
- 06Madurodam
George Maduroplein 1 (tram 9 or bus 22 (toward Scheveningen Noorderstrand)),.
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Where to eat
Just as Indian restaurants abound in the UK, the Netherlands has an excellent tradition in Indonesian and colonial Dutch-Indies cuisine. After Indonesia became independent from the Netherlands in 1945, the country received a large number of former colonials from Dutch and mixed descent who had been forced to leave the newly independent colony.
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Getting to The Hague
- Airports
- Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 16 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 40 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 101 km
- Stations
- Den Haag Centraal railway station, 1 km · Den Haag HS railway station, 1.4 km · Delft railway station, 8.8 km · Den Haag Laan van NOI railway station, 2.3 km
- Amsterdam → The Hague52 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · €6–9
- Eindhoven → The Hague108 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · €14–19
- Maastricht → The Hague167 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for The Hague
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for The Hague. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundby HTM Bike, Donkey Republic (The Hague) and OV-fiets (requires a personalised OV-chipkaart).
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Next door to The Hague
The Hague is 21 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Delftcity and municipality in the Netherlands8.3 km
- Rijswijkcity and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands4.1 km
- Wassenaartown and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands9.5 km
- Scheveningendistrict of The Hague4 km
- Leidschendam-Voorburgmunicipality in South Holland, the Netherlands5.6 km
- Pijnacker-Nootdorpmunicipality in the Netherlands9 km