Nice topic!
And also nice pictures pepitopulpito and androl!
So now i'll post something from Haarlem, my place, and a nice city I think, at least the centre is!
The St. Bavo Church at the Grote Markt (Marketplace) in Haarlem. This church is famous because of his big organ, and because of the 'damiaatjes' which are little clocks which used to ring round 9 pm when the children had to go to sleep
Not a very good image of the Botermarkt (literally Butter Marketplace or something
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At the Spaarne, the river which flows through the centre (or maybe at the rand) of Haarlem
A street in the centre of Haarlem
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The Waarderpolder from above
Het Wed, in Overveen, very nearby Haarlem
Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster, who was, as many people from Haarlem believe, the inventer of the printing/typography, so not Johan Gutenberg
The Grote Markt again
The Railway Station of Haarlem
The Frans Hals museum of the painter yep you can guess it: Frans Hals
The Vleeshal in Haarlem. It means meat hall, cause in the Middle Centuries, it was the only place where meat was allowed to be sold. Nowadays this hall is being used for expositions, and so
The Teylers museum, with paintings, stones, things like that
The Toneelschuur (Theatre Shet or sth) which is used for oh really theatre, but also movies!
The District House with sculptures (you can't see it on the picture unforunately) of Laocoön and one other one which i forgot
, from the Classical Histroy. It is in the Haarlemmerhout, where also the Haarlemmerhoutfestival, and Bevrijdingspop (festival on 5 mai which is the day of the liberation of Holland in 1945
Het Patronaat, a big, kind of music podia
The Kenau Park, which is called to Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, which was a woman, but she fought like the men, when Haarlem was occupied by Spain in 1572-1573, against the enemy. That's why she's also called 'manwijf', which means something like a mannish woman.
So that was it, maybe much pictures and a bit history with it but i was enthusiast
