Canals, architecture, art, an enviable cycling culture … There are lots of reasons to take a city break in the Netherlands, without needing to set foot in the overtouristed ‘other’ capital
e leave the Amsterdam-bound Eurostar at Rotterdam, just 3½ hours from London, and swap platforms for a 23-minute ride to The Hague. The “city of peace and justice” is home to the Dutch parliament – in the 13th-century gothic Binnenhof – two of the royal family’s three residences, and the international court of justice, housed in the neo-Renaissance Peace Palace.
Anyone who missed last year’s blockbuster Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam can make up for it at the Mauritshuis gallery – Girl With A Pearl Earring is luminous in the ‘flesh’ Lungs filled with sea air, we cycle back into town via Westbroek Park and Scheveningen Woods – just two of a claimed 460 green spaces in The Hague. The city’s flag is equal stripes of yellow and green, for beach and parkland. “All 550,000 inhabitants have a tree to hug,” says Remco.Just south of the woods we come upon the city’s most-photographed building, the splendid Peace Palace.
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