Hofwijck

Hofwijck is a museum in The Hague, Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region, South Holland which is located on Westeinde. Hofwijck is situated nearby to the health club Fit met Lisette, as well as near the apartment building In de Wereldt is veel Gevaer, Voorburg.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hofwijck and Voorburg railway station.

Hofwijck

Building

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Hofwijck is a mansion built for 17th-century politician Constantijn Huygens. It is located in Voorburg on the Vliet canal from The Hague to Leiden. The formal address of the cultural heritage is 2 Westeinde, Voorburg, the Netherlands, but its location today is better known as the Voorburg railway station.

Voorburg railway station

Railway station

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Voorburg is a railway station located in Voorburg, Netherlands on the Gouda–Den Haag railway. The station was opened on 1 May 1870 and The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. Voorburg railway station is situated 280 metres northwest of Hofwijck.

Franse Kerk

Church

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Franse Kerk is a church, which is situated 300 metres north of Hofwijck.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Voorburg and Nieuw Binckhorst.

Voorburg

Town

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Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Together with the town Leidschendam and the village Stompwijk, it merged into the municipality of Leidschendam-Voorburg in 2002.

Nieuw Binckhorst

Quarter

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Nieuw Binckhorst is a former industrial area in southeast The Hague, Netherlands, originally called Binckhorst, for which a plan was adopted in 2009 to transform 99.5 hectares into a mixed-use development along the lines of New Urbanism, including residential, employment and entertainment components and with Randstadrail regional light rail service.

Leidschenveen-Ypenburg

Suburb

Leidschenveen-Ypenburg is a Vinex-location and district of The Hague, located in the southeast. It is geographically connected to the main body of the city by only a narrow corridor.

Hofwijck

Type: Museum
Address: Westeinde 2A, Voorburg, 2275AD
Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: The Hague, Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region, South Holland, Western Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude

52.06486° or 52° 3′ 54″ north

Longitude

4.36262° or 4° 21′ 45″ east

Operator

Huygensmuseum

Open location code

9F463977+W2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7061533027

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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