Den Haag, Skeveningen and Delft

In the second day, they moved to Den Haag by train and Visited various places. First, they visited Binnenhof and Mauritshuis Museum. Here they had seen View of Delf and The Girl with a Pearl Earring painted by Vermeer and The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp painted by Rembrandt.

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Binnenhof

After visiting Vredespaleis, they visited Kurhaus Hotel in Scheveningen and took lunch there.

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Kurhaus Hotel in Scheveningen

Then they moved to the city of Delft by train.

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Modern cargo ship passing Rijin-Schie Canal in Delft

In Delft, they walked down to Oostpoort which Mr. Greenwood guessed the place painted in Vermeer's View of Delf. They saw the copy of this tower in Huis Ten Bosch in Kyushyu.

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Oostpoort of Delft viewed from south bank where Vermeer had drawn View of Delf

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2003/10/10


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