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06.157Ti_toerist.info metADV_EN 18-12-2006 16:20 Pagina 1 Discover Delft’s other colours tourist information As of April 2007: Vermeer- City of Delftware, House centrum of Orange and Vermeer Cozy plazas and canals Festivals and fun shopping Attractive accomodations P HOENIX U D O E BALJ RST J UW K STEEG ERS V R T DRIE T AA STRAAT U AKERSSTR. H D T D C E S SCHOOLST EL R R. T DOELEN- F I ENH T PLEIN P O LUY UI Z AGATHAPLEIN M SCHUTTERS E P V N H. GEES O T T HIPP CHO KERKHOF ORSTRAAT B UURT JU OLYTU L 8 R V T R TIP TE OUW DE VLOUW NLAND S NIEUWSTR. WC V VOLDERS V W GRACHT V Useful 7 B R I OUW 5 J P N H 3 KER BOTER- KSTR. A E MAR N V KT BRUG R E O E KLOKSTEEG N G M. map OUDE LAJ NGENDIJK JOZEF V. REIGE BINNEN . BERGSTR. PEPERSTR. G WC WATER- E RRIT SLOOT STR. S R KROMSTR. TR. 1 10 S - SMITST. 11 BURGWAL 9 OUD K MARIA BEESTEN OO GOUWELOOS H MARK B E R O POORT MOLST R N UT P R AAT A B LAA MOLS A P POPPEST N AR T CONGREGATIE A HOF D R 06.157Ti_toerist.info metADV_EN 18-12-2006 16:20 Pagina 2 Welcome to Delft Discover Delft New - From the air! DelftXpress – the Delft blue train KammAir provides A tourist train, painted Delft blue, between round trips and day various tourist attractions – from April-October, trips from Rotterdam every hour between 10am-4pm. Route: Sint- Airport. The Delft Up Agathaplein (10am). Station Centrum (10.15am), and Down package Royal Delft (10.30am) and Botanical Garden € Tourist Information Point comprises a canal trip combined with a (10.45am). Price: 4 (ticket valid for the whole flight over the historic town centre. The day). Tel. 015 256 82 18; www.delftxpress.nl If you would like to know what complete programme takes approx. 3 is going on in Delft, you simply hours. Price: € 75 p.p. Tel. 06 2694 7176; must pay a visit to the Tourist www.kammair.nl Information Point (TIP). They have Get into a Cycle Taxi information about everything there Cycle through the city centre without having to is to see and to do in the city. pedal yourself - the Cycle Taxi. Daily in the city The employees will be able to deal By scooter centre from April-October. You can stop empty with all your questions about Ride through our dy- taxis on and around the Markt. Price: € 1 per museums, hotels, restaurants, namic Delft on the 3 min. p.p. There is also an Alleys Route, an East events and markets. ultramodern scooters India Route, and the Almshouses' Route. Can be of Dagtochten booked on tel. 015 214 14 40; www.velotaxi.nl Tourist Information Point (TIP) Combinatie Delft. Hippolytusbuurt 4, 2611 HN Delft Price € 6.50 p.p. per half day (2 hours). tel.: 0900 5151 555 (€ 0.40 per minute) Tel. 015 213 64 03; tel. from abroad: +31 (0)15 215 40 51 www.uitindelft.nl Canal trips e-mail: [email protected] During the canal trip (45 min.), a multi- lingual guide tells you about Delft, about www.delft.com By horsetram its special buildings and their history. A historic route with From April-October, every hour from Opening hours historic transport - 11am-5pm. Start/return: Koornmarkt 113. April - September Sun-Mon 10am-4pm for groups only. Price: € 5.75/€ 3 p.p. (3-12 yrs). Special Tue-Fri 9am-6pm Can be booked on packages and group packages. Also pedalo Sat 10am-5pm tel. 015 256 18 28; hire, € 12.50 per hour per 4-person pedalo. October-March Sun 10am-3pm www.delftsepaardentram.nl Tel. +31 (0)15 212 63 85; Mon 11am-4pm www.rondvaartdelft.nl Tue-Sat 10am-4pm Bank Holidays 10am-4pm, 24 and 31 Dec to 3pm, closed 25 and 26 Dec and 1 Jan. City Walks trip. Daily from 7 Apr to 30 Sept; during Oct, only in weekends, starting at 11.30am (€ 10). Research has demonstrated that Delft is the most popular Dutch city for walking. You can choose one Guided city walks An experienced guide takes you of several themed walks - on your own, in groups, around all the important and beautiful sites of Delft. guided, or combined with a trip on the Delft canals. 30 March to 29 Sept, Wed, Fri, and Sat from 2-3.30pm (€ 5). Registration/start of all walks at the TIP; Individual city walks For those who prefer to discover max. 30 people, Dutch and English-speaking guides. Delft by themselves, there are four walks, each with their own theme - History, Vermeer, Royal Family, Group outings Delft is just the right place for and Famous Delft Painters, Authors and Scientists. imaginative group trips. How would you like a On sale from the TIP (€ 2.20). chocolate workshop where you make your own chocolates? The organisations who deal with Delft City Tour With this package you explore the city groups are listed on page 11. for 2 hours, combining a guided city walk and a canal 2 06.157Ti_toerist.info metADV_EN 18-12-2006 16:21 Pagina 3 City of Delftware, the House of Orange and Vermeer You need not look any further - this is the city with something for everyone. All year round, we offer some- thing for the culture lover, the funshopper, the historian, the scientist, the gourmand, and the sporty. Our city has it all - green squares and romantic canals, quiet almshouses, pleasant terraces, fun shops, exclusive restaurants and attractive hotels. And we haven’t mentioned the museums yet! This is the city of the world-famous Delftware, of William of Orange and of Johannes Vermeer. You have arrived in Delft. The Markt is one of the most beautiful Ontdek de andere kleuren van Delft squares in the Netherlands, framed by wandelroute historie the 17th century gables, the wonderful in Delft Stadhuis (Town Hall), and the imposing Nieuwe Kerk with the mausoleum of William of Orange. It takes you back in time. The atmosphere is relaxed and typically Dutch, just like the pancakes and the ‘poffertjes’ The Stadhuis on the Markt, built in 1620 around the13th-century tower Het Steen. you find on the menus. The city’s liveliness is enhanced by its relatively young and days, and as a textile city, where fine Delft City walk ‘History in international inhabitants - the various worsted was made. Where the barges used Delft’ is available knowledge institutes, including the Technical to be loaded with textiles, barrels of beer from the TIP in University of Delft with more than 13,000 and Delftware on the canals, you are now Dutch, English, students, contribute to that. welcome on flat barges with colourful German and French. terraces. Rich past The Medieval structure is still recognisable India Company and the town was home Welcome to Delft. Beware - you would not in the old city centre. Where possible, the to famous scientists, such as Hugo Grotius, be the first to fall for our picturesque and centre is a car-free zone, enabling you to and painters like Johannes Vermeer. As romantic city. explore the pleasant city centre on foot. the home base of the Dutch East India Most sights and attractions are within wal- Company, the largest trading company in king distance of each other. Monumental the world, Delft became familiar with houses are an explicit memory of Delft’s Chinese porcelain, which was to be the rich past. More than 750 years old, the city inspiration for the famous Delftware. But enjoyed its heyday in the Golden Age. In even before those days, Delft already Ontdek de andere kleuren van Delft those days, Delft was a rich merchants’ experienced international fame. As a city wandelroute bekende Delftse schilders, town with its own lodge of the Dutch East of beer, with 150 breweries in its glory schrijvers en wetenschappers in Delft Famous citizens of Delft was the right-hand man of the statesman Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. In the political- polished miniscule lenses that enlarged to religious conflict with Prince Maurits, ‘the City walk ‘Famous 266 times, and then mounted them on a Oracle of Delft’ chose the side of Van Delft painters, au- clever device - the microscope. Vermeer is Oldenbarnevelt. In 1618, Maurits had Hugo thors and scientists’ likely to have depicted his fellow citizen in Grotius and Van Oldenbarnevelt arrested, is available from the his paintings ‘The Geographer’ and ‘The As- and the latter was beheaded. Grotius was TIP in Dutch, English, tronomer’. After Vermeer’s death, Van Leeu- given a lifelong sentence and was locked German and French. wenhoek was appointed as his trustee. Van up in Loevestein Castle. After two years, he Leeuwenhoek is buried in the Oude Kerk. managed to escape from the fort by hiding in an empty book chest. There is a statue of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), international Hugo Grotius on the Markt in front of the lawyer, historian, philosopher and diplomat Nieuwe Kerk, where he is buried. 3 06.157Ti_toerist.info metADV_EN 18-12-2006 16:21 Pagina 4 DELFT POTTERY DE DELFTSE PAUW • Original entirely handpainted Delftware • ENTRANCE AND GUIDED TOUR FREE OF CHARGE • Show- and salesroom • Factory prices OPENING HOURS Season 1/4 - 31/10 1/11 - 31/3 Monday - Friday 9.00 - 16.30 9.00 - 16.30 Saturday - Sunday 9.00 - 16.30 11.00 - 13.00 Delftweg 133 • PO Box 400 • 2600 AK Delft T + 31 (0)15 212 49 20 • F + 31 (0)15 213 49 79 Kerkstraat 13A tel.