Sion
Sion is a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of Rijswijk. It is located on the border with Delft. In 1345, the monastery Sancta Maria in Monte Sion was built in this area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood with 805 residents
- Description: human settlement in the Netherlands
- Also known as: “Sion, Netherlands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum Het Prinsenhof and Oude Kerk.
Museum Het Prinsenhof
Museum
Photo: Ellywa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Het Prinsenhof is a museum in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. Formerly the monastery of St Agatha, the building changed purpose over time. The whole building came into the possession of Delft City Council by 1925, who gradually converted the building into a museum.
Oude Kerk
Church
Photo: Ferditje, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Oude Kerk, nicknamed Oude Jan and Scheve Jan, 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.
De Roos
Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.
De Roos, also locally known as Roosmolen or Koren op de Molen, is a wind and platform mill situated within the municipality of Delft, in the South Holland province of the Netherlands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include RijswijkBuiten and Agnetapark.
Agnetapark
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agnetapark was an area of workers' housing in Delft, South Holland, the Netherlands. It was one of the highest quality workers' housing areas built before the Housing Act of 1902 was imposed.
Sion
- Categories: buurtschap and locality
- Location: Rijswijk, Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region, South Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
52.01689° or 52° 1′ 1″ northLongitude
4.32855° or 4° 19′ 43″ eastPopulation
805Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)Open location code
9F46288H+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1930975093OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
2747209Wikidata ID
Q934795
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Persian—“Sion” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sion”
- Chinese: “Sion”
- Dutch: “Sion (plaats)”
- Dutch: “Sion (Rijswijk)”
- Dutch: “Sion”
- French: “Sion”
- Japanese: “シオン”
- Lithuanian: “Sionas”
- Luxembourgish: “Sion”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sion”
- Persian: “سیون، هلند”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sion”. Photo: Michiel1972, CC BY-SA 3.0.