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Voorburg

Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

Voorburg
Voorburg · Michielverbeek
The place

Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Together with the town Leidschendam and the village Stompwijk, it merged into the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg in 2002. Situated adjacent to the city of The Hague, it is often regarded as one of its suburbs.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Voorburg

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.

  1. 01
    Mauritshuis

    The Mauritshuis is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings.

    3 km · art museum in The Hague, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Peace Palace

    The Peace Palace is an international courthouse in The Hague, Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

    4.5 km · international law administrative building in The Hague, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    KB, nationale bibliotheek

    The KB National Library of the Netherlands is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798. The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the Netherlands, from medieval literature to today's publications.

    2.3 km · national library of the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    House of Representatives

    The House of Representatives ɣeːnəˈraːl], lit. 'Second Chamber of the States General', or simply the Tweede Kamer) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate. It has 150 seats in a semicircular seating arrangement.

    2.9 km · lower house of the Netherlands parliament · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Madurodam

    Madurodam is a miniature park and tourist attraction in the Scheveningen district of The Hague in the Netherlands. It is home to a range of 1:25 scale model replicas of famous Dutch landmarks, historical cities and large developments.

    5.1 km · miniature park in The Hague, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Senate

    The Senate ɣeːnəˈraːl], literally "First Chamber of the States General", or simply Eerste Kamer [ˈeːrstə ˈkaːmər]; sometimes Senaat [səˈnaːt] ) is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands. Its 75 members are elected on lists by the members of the twelve provincial councils and four electoral colleges for the Senate every four years, within three months of the provincial elections.

    3.2 km · upper house of the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Huis ten Bosch

    Huis ten Bosch is a royal palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of three official residences of the Dutch monarch; the two others being the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.

    2.7 km · palace in The Hague · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    WerkTalent Stadion

    The WerkTalent Stadion is a multi-use stadium in The Hague, Netherlands, designed by Zwarts & Jansma Architects. Completed in 2007, the stadium is used mostly for football and field hockey.

    2.1 km · soccer stadium in The Hague, the Netherlands · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kunstmuseum Den Haag

    The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

    5.5 km · art museum in The Hague, Netherlands · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Hague Academy of International Law

    The Hague Academy of International Law is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Courses are taught in English and French and, except for External Programme Courses, are held in the Peace Palace.

    4.5 km · School of international law in the Netherlands · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Voorburg

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 14 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 38 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 98 km
Stations
Den Haag Centraal railway station, 2.5 km · Den Haag HS railway station, 2.3 km · Den Haag Laan van NOI railway station, 1.3 km · Den Haag Mariahoeve railway station, 2.5 km · Den Haag Moerwijk railway station, 3.7 km
  • Eindhoven → Voorburg
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · €14–19
  • Maastricht → Voorburg
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €23–32
  • Groningen → Voorburg
    196 km · quickest by road, 3h 43m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Voorburg

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 Voorburg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundby HTM Bike, Donkey Republic (The Hague) and OV-fiets (requires a personalised OV-chipkaart).

From Wikivoyage: The Hague, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    140 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    422 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    631 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    700 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    717 km

If you know how people move in Voorburg – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Voorburg

Voorburg is 4 km from The Hague, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • The Haguecity and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands, seat of the Dutch government3.3 km
  • Rijswijkcity and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands3.2 km
  • Leidschendam-Voorburgmunicipality in South Holland, the Netherlands3.3 km
  • Pijnacker-Nootdorpmunicipality in the Netherlands5.9 km
  • Nootdorptown in South Holland, the Netherlands4.1 km
  • Forum Hadrianihuman settlement in the Netherlands1.2 km