Castle Teylingen is a Dutch castle ruin in the neighborhood of Teijlingen close to Sassenheim. It was presumably the ancestral seat of the noble Van Teylingen family, from which the Brederode house descended directly. Only the ‘Ruins of Teylingen’ remain from the castle.  The famous Keukenhof Gardens originated as the food gardens for this castle in the past when this Read more...

It is the year 1642. The Amsterdam Militia ordered a series of seven paintings for the banquet hall in the Kloveniersdoelen, which was a place of exercise of several compagnies. One of the paintings shows The company of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburgh getting ready to march out. Nowadays widely known as The Night Watch (De Nachtwacht). Read more...

Nederlands Openluchtmuseum is a village-sized open-air museum which primarily shows the history of The Netherlands as realistic as possible with a great collection of buildings and artefacts. Almost all of the buildings are originals, which are moved from their original location and rebuild in the museum. Think of farmhouses, working windmills, a church, shops, factories and the museum even has Read more...