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Explore Delft in Netherlands

Delft in the region of South Holland with its 95,060 inhabitants is a town in Netherlands - some 34 mi or ( 55 km ) South-West of Amsterdam , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Delft

Current time in Delft is now 04:56 PM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " Europe/Amsterdam " with a UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Zoetermeer, Utrecht, T Haantje, Sion, and S-Hertogenbosch. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Zoetermeer . We encountered some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Delft ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Dutch Special Forces in Counter Terrorism mission at Legermuseum, Delft

2:23 min by vikfranke
Views: 32064 Rating: 4.81

Dutch Special Forces counter terrorism team execute CT operation in Delft, Holland. The mayor of the city of Delft is held hostage and liberated by Dutch commando's, near Legermuseum. They move in wit ..

TEDxDelft - Irma Boom - Manifesto for the book

18:04 min by TEDxTalks
Views: 2384 Rating: 5.00

Irma Boom (born 15 December 1960 in Lochem, Gelderland) is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer specialising in book making. With her use of unfamiliar formats, materials, colors, structures, and typog ..


TEDxDelft - Lowie Vermeersch - Beautiful Mobility

17:44 min by TEDxTalks
Views: 2130 Rating: 5.00

The beauty of a car is in the details, in the tension of lines in the design. The more attention goes into these lines, the more beautiful the car will be. The room to play with in automotive design i ..

The tractor girl: Manon Ossevoort at TEDxDelft

12:39 min by TEDxTalks
Views: 1337 Rating: 5.00

Manon Ossevoort is a professional actor and theatre-maker from the Netherlands. During her studies at the 'Amsterdam School of the Arts' (AHK Theatre) Manon learned that for every story you want to te ..


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Interesting facts about this location

UNESCO-IHE

The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education is the largest international postgraduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. The Institute confers fully accredited MSc degrees, and PhD degrees in collaboration with partners in the Netherlands. Since 1957 the Institute has provided postgraduate education to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries. UNESCO-IHE was created in 2003 from the previous IHE.

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Located at 52.01 4.36 (Lat./Long.); Less than 0 km away
Tags: UNESCO, Water organizations

Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof

Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof is a museum in Delft, in the province of South Holland (Zuid-Holland), the Netherlands. The museum building is a 15th century former monastery (St. Agathaklooster), that was used by Stadtholder William of Orange as his residence. It was also where William of Orange was murdered in 1584: bullet holes in the stone wall can still be seen today.

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Located at 52.01 4.36 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Biographical museums in the Netherlands, Historic house museums in the Netherlands, Museums in South Holland

Prinsenhof

The Prinsenhof ("The Court of the Prince") in Delft in the Netherlands is an urban palace built in the Middle Ages as a monastery. Later it served as a residence for William the Silent. The building still exists and now houses the municipal museum. William was murdered in the Prinsenhof in 1584; the holes in the wall made by the bullets at the main stairs are still visible. Today, the building displays a collection of Dutch Golden Age paintings.

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Located at 52.01 4.35 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Museums in South Holland, Rijksmonuments in Delft

Oude Kerk (Delft)

The Oude Kerk (Old Church), nicknamed Oude Jan ("Old John"), is a Gothic Protestant church in the old city center of Delft, the Netherlands. Its most recognizable feature is a 75-meter-high brick tower that leans about two meters from the vertical.

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Located at 52.01 4.36 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: 14th-century church buildings, Brick Gothic, Churches in South Holland, Churches in the Netherlands, Inclined towers, Rijksmonuments in Delft, Towers completed in the 14th century

The Little Street

The Little Street (Het Straatje) is a painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed c. 1657-1658. It is housed in the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, and signed left below the window with the writing "I V MEER". The exact location of the scene Vermeer painted is not known. However, recent study by the Delft professor F.H. Kreuger found the Voldersgracht as the location of Vermeer’s The Little Street. Nowadays, the Vermeer Centre Delft is located here .

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Located at 52.01 4.36 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: 1657 paintings, 1658 paintings, Collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Paintings by Johannes Vermeer

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