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Madurodam (Dutch pronunciation: [maːˌdyːroːˈdɑm]) 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.
A miniature park is a display of miniature buildings and models, usually as a recreational and tourist attraction open to the public. A miniature park may contain a model of a single city or town, often called a miniature city or model village , or it can contain a number of different sets of models.
The Hague (/ h eɪ ɡ / HAYG; Dutch: Den Haag [dɛn ˈɦaːx] ⓘ or 's-Gravenhage [ˌsxraːvə(n)ˈɦaːɣə] ⓘ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands.
The City Center of The Hague (Dutch: Centrum) is the oldest and, with a population of 104,658 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2018), [2] the second largest of The Hague's eight districts, consisting of nine neighbourhoods. [3] Two railways stations can be found in the city center: Den Haag Centraal and Den Haag Hollands Spoor.
The Mauritshuis (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪtsˌɦœys], The Hague dialect: [ˈmɑːʁɪtsˌɦœːs]; lit. ' Maurice House ') 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.
The origins of the split between Amsterdam as capital city and The Hague as seat of government lay in the peculiar Dutch constitutional history. From the middle-ages to the sixteenth century, The Hague had been the seat of government of the County of Holland and residence of the Counts of Holland. Amsterdam in the meantime was growing to be a ...
City of Brussels 1912, no. 846; Delft 1966, no. 1; The Hague –Apeldoorn– Nagasaki 1991–1992, no. 33. Credit line: Royal Collections, The Hague: Notes: In 2003 the sitter was identified as Hans Schwarzwaldt (1513-1575) based on a resemblance to the subject of another portrait miniature painted by Holbein in 1543.
The Hague's Binnenhof with the Hofvijver (Court Pond). The Binnenhof (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɪnə(n)ˌɦɔf] ⓘ; English: Inner Court) and Buitenhof (Outer Court) is a complex of buildings in the city centre of The Hague, Netherlands, next to the Hofvijver (Court Pond).