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Town Museum: The city is attractively laid out. Many old tanals and moats remain, and the former ramparts have been replaced by gardens and lawns. The town museum hall (Stadhuis) in the marketplace was
•merly the palace of the counts of Holland, be-ri in the 14th century and several times re-red. The massive Grote Kerk, with its lofty ver and superb organ, is a 15th to early 16th :itury church. Other fine buildings are the lonial Museum, the Museum of Industrial Art, 3ie Teyler Foundation and Museum, and the
The late Gothic Stadhuis in the marketplace has a Renaissance outer staircase; the Groote Kerk has late Renaissance stained glass windows (mostly executed by the Crabeth brothers); the Stedelijk Museum contains materials relating to the town museum. Nearby is the Augustinian monastery of Steen, where Erasmus took holy orders. The town museum is much frequented by tourists; a popular trip is to the gardens at Boskoop. Population: (1967) 46,823.
Three well-loved ones to look for in and adjacent to the town museum Hall Square are The Little Bugler; The Dragon Fountain; and, on the north side, the Lur Blowers' Column. A lur is a queer old Viking horn, or trumpet, formerly used to summon warriors or worshipers, and in the National Museum you may see some that date from the first millennium. This same museum, to go back to Denmark's earliest legacies, reveals this land's almost unmatched heritage of Bronze Age bibelots and costume jewelry. The celebrated bronze Sun Car, overlaid with gold, dating from 1000 B. c, is one of the world's supreme museum treasures. |
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